The New York Times article The Dark Art of Statistical Deception By Tara Parker-Pope is an interview with the author of a new book.
The tendency of academics, politicians and pundits to generate such numerical falsehoods from data — and the tendency of the public to believe the results — is a phenomenon cleverly explored in the new book “Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception,” by Charles Seife.
This is a great explanation of the reasons why Greenberg’s Law Of The Media is true.