When we examine controversial topics and the respective arguments made for each side, sometimes we see one group reaching for support that stretches a point so far that it looks more like desperation than reasoning. The quality of evidence is so flimsy and thin that we don’t wonder whether it’s right or wrong. We ask, “Is this the best you can do?”
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2012/10/10/why-fisher-will-win-and-texas-will-lose/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en