Steve MacSween wrote: > I recently witnessed it firsthand on an Australian performance cars list I > also happen to belong to. If you heard the disinformation campaign claims > about ethanol now being taken at face value in the Aus media, you'd fall off > your collective chair. I thought someone was having a joke, at first.
Like the time some campaign for bicycle helmet legislation got a hold of some idiot at my local paper. They actually printed a claim that a kid without a foam hat was "fourteen times more likely to be killed" as if it were a universally accepted fact. The highest such figure in the research is from an early, intentionally biased study which found a benefit of about 72% in injury reduction, and then went on to guess (with no data) that it might be as high as 85% reduction in death rates. Is 100% equal to fourteen times 15%? And don't get me started on PETA's lies, those folks are worse.
