the blog of david dean » terrorism http://www.davidbdean.com currently not blogging much at all Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:30:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Post hoc ergo propter hoc http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/04/20/post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/04/20/post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:36:13 +0000 David Dean http://www.cebidae.com/2006/04/20/post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc/ A fine example of post hoc ergo propter hoc (you may know this as post hoc):

There have been no significant terrorist attacks against the U.S. since the release of the iPod in October 2001, thus demonstrating the value of iPods in fighting terrorism.

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