So yesterday at Entrepreneurship class, my professor brought in this speaker to talk about opening a business, how to start, how to manage your business, what kind of thing you will be facing, what you have to prepare and whatnot.
Anyhows, he was quite a successful man in a cigar business in Minnesota. The whole talk was amazing and very persuasive until he started talking about second-hand smokers, which stroke me the most. Basically, he was saying that there is not enough evidence to prove that second-hand smokers actually suffer more from the smoke than first-hand smokers. Claiming that he had read enough research and the theory was not legitimate enough, he got questioned by a lot of us but firmly responded back by saying "don't even go there", so none of us questioned him again. However, that starled me and caused me to want to look more into this type of research... and I havent, but really, its a question of do you trust a cigar business man talking about second-hand smokers or do you take for granted whatever the American Lung Associations say?
Again, he had made his reputation during 1 hour talk, and we so believed in whatever he said that even we questioned a fact that every body were just kinda born to know?
How powerful people with money or articulate intelligence can mislead you, huh?
------ Manipulative statistically : I like that word!
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