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Jay Lawrence commented:
My business partner once asked someone from the Auditor Generals office what he did. At first he got the spiel. He thank him and them said, “OK, what do you REALLY do?”
The response fundamentally was, “I produce from the statistics whatever figures are necessary to support the argument being presented by the person or group that asked for the figures.”
Now, if the federal government is doing this, is there anyone who really thinks that the same tactics aren’t being used by private companies and lobby groups?


The London 2012 Summer Olympics had its closing ceremonies in August 2012. Just one week after the athletes dispersed, a masters student in fine arts began a project at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. Regina Valkenborgh crafted a pinhole camera out of an aluminum beer can, duct tape, and light-sensitive photographic paper. Affixed facing skyward on the side of the university’s Bayfordbury Observatory, the camera was forgotten—weathering the elements for eight years and one month. David Campbell—the observatory’s Principal Technical officer—finally got around to removing the camera this fall. Inside, he discovered the longest-exposure image ever captured, showing eight years’ worth of solar paths across the sky.
Read more: https://mymodernmet.com/eight-year-longest-exposure-photo/
