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Originally Posted by Zimbochick
This is an opinion piece, and the authors admit they have no expertise in child safety. I'll stick with the findings of experts in the field.
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I only found it interesting because it was the Freakonomics guys. They are statisticians and researchers. I personally would not debunk their findings in terms of the actual statistics, how they were come by and what they say. They included the "we are not child safety experts" as a liability limiter, but I still find their research to be rather interesting and worthy of further exploration.
Alas, what happens with most of these things is that they end up starting out as "good recommendations" from studies funded by the people who sell the product. Then the lobbying starts and the "recommendations" turn into laws. The car seat industry is HUGE and is certainly profiting greatly by the proliferation of laws and ever increasing recommendations for how long you need to keep your kids in car seats and boosters.
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