Eliezer Yudkowsky comments on A History of Bayes’ Theorem

Eliezer Yudkowsky 29 Aug 2011 7:01 UTC
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Dreyfus was still convicted, though his sentence was reduced, but the public was outraged and the president issued a pardon two weeks later.

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Dreyfus spent years on a prison island and emerged looking rather the worse for wear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair
- jhuffman 29 Aug 2011 17:06 UTC
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  The trial discussed in this piece was his second trial, held after years of imprisonment.
  
  On September 19, 1899, following a passionate campaign by his supporters, including leading artists and intellectuals like Émile Zola, Dreyfus was pardoned by President Émile Loubet in 1899 and released from prison. He had been subjected to a second trial in that year and again declared guilty of treason despite the evidence in favor of his innocence.