Re: SARS!

From: derek gatherer (dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Wed 09 Apr 2003 - 12:24:38 GMT

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Oops, my last paragraph got a bit mangled..

> Contagionism, as a repdictive mechanism for social
> phenomena, is real a non-starter. The best that can
> be done is to analyse things in retrospect< and say<
> here was a contagion> any attempt to predict the
> future using it is futile>

should have been:

Contagionism, as a _predictive_ mechanism for social phenomena, is real a non-starter. The best that can be done is to analyse things in retrospect, and say
"here _was_ a contagion" any attempt to predict the future using it is futile.

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