Mark Twain once famously said, “Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” In a series of posts, starting with the one below, I’ll substitute “statistics” by “democrats” in the U.S.; whence it’ll become transparent how the Democrat Party support their weak or utterly false claims by abusing data science, economics, physics, geoscience…and even common sense. They also rely on dubious “experts” to buttress their falsehoods. Every time you hear a Democrat speak, lurking nearby is the grinning ghost of Sir Robert Giffen, a Scottish Economist and Statistician, who in 1892 stated, “An old jest runs to the effect that there are three degrees of comparison…

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