Adomanis bases his assertion not on actual alcohol mortality data, but on a speculative extrapolation from Rostat data.

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But this specific assertion it is not supported by the data.

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But this point of view is in itself supported by real-world data rather than an ideological or politically motivated assertion.

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In my recent piece about Teradata Aster, I noted their assertion that new Aster tools could reduce the need for data scientists by 80 percent, using one to set up a function and then turn the operations over to business analysts.

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They also backed up his assertion that assistant researcher Kim Sun-jong deceived him with fake data that became part of the research.

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Professor Siegel counters this assertion by noting that the 10-year look-back contains a skew in earnings data associated with the financial sector during the sub-prime mortgage crisis.

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Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, a group that has sued the city in the past over stop-and-frisk, said the new data was "encouraging" and was a challenge to the Bloomberg administration's assertion that wide-ranging use of the practice helps reduce crime.

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