Fudging the stats for God

UCLA professor of public policy (and serious blogger) Mark A. R. Kleiman argues in a piece at Slate.com that a faith-based prison program favored by President Bush and conservatives actually makes recidivism worse. It was posted there on Tuesday -- I'm late to it.

Update 11:01 a.m.: Prof. Kleiman discusses further on his blog (no, it's interesting, really). He also dissects some of the hundreds of emails he got, many of them assuming that of course he must be an atheist...