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I don't object to the paper at all. These guys have got to make a living somehow, and I'm enough of a stats nerd myself to warm to the thought of getting hold of some data and running a bunch of regression analyses and seeing what comes out the other end. Shame on Bill for admitting to not reading it because he didn't like what he took to be its conclusions - next stop, book-burning, perhaps.
I agree with Plurabelle that the Telegraph article is sloppy. It's riddled with typos, the kind that make you sound like a moron if you read it out loud (try it). And those quotes from the professor look odd out of context.
If the article had been in the Guardian, I wouldn't have a problem with it, apart from that. However, the fact that it was in the Telegraph suggests to me that the out of context quotes were an intentional ruse to feed the prejudices of thousands of Tory petrolheads.