ABC 20/20 investigates NBC Dateline's work in Chris Hansen's controversial TCAP series

Published: September 7, 2007, 11:38 pm

ABC 20/20 had quite a show tonight. Let's go in reverse order.John Stossel gave a brief interview to filmmaker Michael Moore, and presented other evidence contradicting his episode in Sicko claiming that socialized medicine in Cuba gives good health care. The show then presented ( The Numbers Game ) trader and mathematician Mike Byster, who now volunteers in public schools teaching middle school kids how to do arithmetic in their heads, without calculators, using number theory tricks. For example, 25 x 25 = 625: Concatenate (3 x 2) and (5 x 5). I guess I could prove this with the binomial theorem. Byster has been blacklisted from a few casinos for counting cards, something libertarians like. Then the show ( Inside Out ) showed us high definition photography of the inside of the human body, a preview of Inside the Living Body to air on the National Geographic Channel Sept. 16. They showed a clip from the 1966 Sci-Fi film Fantastic Voyage. But the most

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