MRS Pat Hughes (Postbag on August 28) should not be
flabbergasted that people can manipulate data to
expediently suit their line of reasoning - countless
individuals exploit this ruse, some might say it has
become obligatory.
If Mrs Hughes' views do not correspond entirely with
those of particular oft espoused views there is one
thing that she can be assured of. When her opinion is
required such critic will most emphatically supply it
for her.
Mrs Hughes should be in no doubt that some
correspondents' recurrent donations to Postbag plug
a much needed space. Some even provide more
repeats than those responsible for BBC programme
schedules.
Regular readers of Postbag will be now be much
acquainted with those habitual correspondents who
would have no reluctance in proffering advice on any
of their myriad of specialties. This only serves to
establish the veracity of the old axiom, "You can
always find some Eskimos to tell Arabs how to cope
with the desert heat."
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