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alecco on Nov 23, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and...

Disgusting.

  * The Economist (more often than not missing the point and failing on preditions.)
  * No link to original research.
  * Lack of signs of peer-reviewed research
  * Missing analysis of opposing view.

This isn't science or unbiased journalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows#Critics_o...

ig1 on Nov 23, 2008 [–]

The article was about the research Dr Keizer has just published in Science. How is that research not original or peer reviewed ?

alecco on Nov 23, 2008 | [–]

Somehow I missed that paragraph, sorry. My bad.

Still... The Economist.. Against graffiti... I don't know.

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