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Poor rhetoric
Unfortunately the author of this article does not give any substantive evidence for or against the behavioral tendencies of any breed of dogs. There is a lot of anecdotal discussion, some ad hominim attacks of "self-described experts", and the implication that the hatred of pit bulls is somehow racist.
The only section with any substantive data is the challenge in providing a reasonable definition of breed, an important issue. Nonetheless, what I still don't know at the end of this rather tiresome article is whether there is any specific data about pit bull attacks, or in fact of dog attacks by any breed.
You can do better than publishing this kind of thing.