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300 signatures can be wrong. How about 2 million?

21 May 2016

9:00 AM

21 May 2016

9:00 AM

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306 business people signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph saying that Britain would be better off outside the EU. Some notable collections of signatures:
364 economists signed a Times letter about the dangers of monetarism in 1981.
5,154 physicists signed a paper in Physical Review Letters last year reporting a more accurate recording of the mass of the Higgs boson particle.

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