Of course, the problem with things like this, Huff's book, everything by David Freedman, etc., is that people want to lie with statistics. To put it more prosaically, people have biases, prejudices, socially-created expectations, ulterior motives, and usually statistics is a more-or-less subtle technique for whitewashing those into 'scientific knowledge'. This happens all across the social & biological sciences, in medical research, and in industry.