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The Witherspoon Institute, discussing the study’s findings, adds another clue: “48% of the respondents with a GF [gay father], and 43% of the respondents with an LM [lesbian mother] indicated that they were either black or Hispanic.” Those numbers sound awfully high, and they are. They far exceed the roughly 30-percent black-plus-Hispanic share of the U.S. population. Why would young adults with minority backgrounds and a high rate of economic distress report having far more than their share of gay parents? Are they somehow more likely to grow up in homes with actual gay parents? Or are their parents somehow being overclassified as gay?

Putting together that with other anomalies in the study data, I conclude that the study does not come even close to measuring what it claims to be measuring. See also: Amy Davidson, New Yorker, among a whole mini-literature of responses.

About that “gay parenting” study is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

September 1 roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

“Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

Claim: touching smokers’ clothing can cause “massive” nerve damage is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

“Are not companies obligated to make the safest vehicle possible?”

The safest vehicle possible is a Sherman tank with a restrictor plate preventing it from exceeding 1 mph, so the answer to your question is “no”—though certainly trial lawyers have an interest in asking you to think manufacturers are doing something wrong when they don’t.

“Until Toyota can identify the exact cause of these accidents (besides the too-convenient driver error) anything and everything is in question and must be investigated.”

I look forward to you writing NHTSA and demanding they investigate if invisible vampires are causing elderly drivers to hit the wrong pedal. After all, anything and everything is in question, and you reject Occam’s Razor when it comes to an alleged electronic defect that simultaneously causes three separate systems to malfunction six times more often for elderly drivers than non-elderly drivers, so why not demand an investigation of the equally unlikely invisible-vampire problem as long as you’re rejecting science?

Bad-mouthing Toyota and its defenders is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

Update: South Carolina $18M sudden acceleration verdict reversed is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

No telling how many children died in the meantime, all so trial lawyers could line their pockets attacking vaccine manufacturers.

Lancet repudiates MMR vaccine study is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

December 23 roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

Forensic science was not developed by scientists. It was mostly created by cops, who were guided by little more than common sense. And as hundreds of criminal cases begin to unravel, many established forensic practices are coming under fire. PM takes an in-depth look at the shaky science that has put innocent people behind bars.

Via Radley Balko and Scott Greenfield.

Popular Mechanics on bad forensics is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system