fixup! fixup! fixup! new post: Reviewing The Scout Mindset

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@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@ defend their existing beliefs and ignore contradicting evidence.
 An illustrative example in the book is the London Homeopathic Hospital
 reporting a Cholera mortality rate of 18 percent---less than half of
 mainstream hospitals---during the 1850s [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1846%E2%80%931860_cholera_pandemic][Cholera pandemic]]. The Council
-excluded this result from their survey data---yet the homeopaths'
-success was real! If the Council had applied the principle of
-Chesterton's fence[fn:2], i.e. investigated and understood /how/ the
-homeopaths' got this result, they would have saved many lives.
+didn't believe in Homeopathy and excluded this result from their
+survey data; yet the Homeopaths' success was real---it just had
+nothing to do with Homeopathy. If the Council had applied the
+principle of Chesterton's fence[fn:2], i.e. investigated and
+understood /how/ the homeopaths' got this result, they would have
+saved many lives.
 
 Dealing with uncertainty is an important tool in the Scout's toolbox,
 and Star Trek's Spock got a harsh---but fair---treatment in the