From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!rabbit!ark Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Nestle Boycott Article-I.D.: rabbit.1265 Posted: Wed Mar 23 17:01:02 1983 Received: Thu Mar 24 21:32:20 1983 None of the articles on this subject so far has contained a single documented fact. They are full of phrases like "I heard" or "they say" or "everyone knows". A popular children's game is called "Telephone". One player thinks up a phrase and whispers it to the next, who whispers it to the next, and so on. What comes out at the end bears little resemblance to what went in at the beginning, even when all parties are trying to reproduce what they have heard as faithfully as possible. I think, therefore, that I am not out of place in pleading with people who make apparently factual assertions about emotional issues to state their sources.