Contriving

Airbags associated with increased probability of death in accidents, study finds

Interesting study shows that mandatory airbags in the US have actually increased death rate. And I quote the authors reasoning behind why the study contrasts so sharply with the NHTSA’s studies:

“Making everyone have airbags and then verifying the effectiveness using only fatal crashes in FARS is like making everyone get radiation and then estimating the lives saved by looking only at people who have cancer. Overall, there will be more deaths if everyone is given radiation, but in the cancer subset, radiation will be effective.”