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tpm 40 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap populatio...

If there are no valid studies, you can't say Britain didn't suffer any economic damage from leaving the EU, because you can't possibly know that.

mike_hearn 40 days ago [–]

Only if you accept the strange premise that nothing is knowable unless some academic formats it in a PDF?

It's easy to find things out without needing a study. Just look at the data yourself. It's not telling a complex story.

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