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Piketty's data was already found to be fraudulent. He skewed it to push his own political worldview.

https://www.ft.com/content/e1f343ca-e281-11e3-89fd-00144feab...

The Financial Times analysis has already been found to fraudulent, with skewed accusations so that they can push their own worldview:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/05/thomas-p...

> But increasingly the battle seems to be one over methodological choices and data interpretation rather than major data errors or fabrications, as the initial FT work suggested.

Your article proves my point. He deliberately altered his data.

It's not saying that. The Economist refers to itself earlier¹ saying this:

> All told, Mr Piketty is guilty of sloppiness (certainly in his notation), and perhaps of some errors. But there is little evidence, so far, to support the serious charge of cherry-picking statistics. Nor have his findings that wealth concentration is, once again, rising been fatally undermined.

You claimed that he was being fraudulent, and this is saying the opposite.

¹ http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21603022...

My article most certainly does not say that he "deliberately" altered his data, which I presume to mean towards his world view. You can't just lay out one side of the accusations then ignore the response entirely, especially when the economist is not backing up the FT's highly slanted take on it.

You use the word fraudulent too lightly.

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