Uh Oh!

mamahen

Member

• Jan 12, 2010

• #1

http://www.thepassinglane.ca/2010/01/child-car-seats-might-not-be-as-good-as-we-think.html

This cant be good.

 

TechnoGranola

Forum Ambassador

• Jan 12, 2010

• #2

Mind giving us a hint what the article is about before we click on the link?

 

MomToEliEm

Moderator

• Jan 12, 2010

• #3

TechnoGranola said:

Mind giving us a hint what the article is about before we click on the link?

Click to expand...

It's an article discussing the carseat study from the Super Freakonomics book.

Here are several links discussing this study and why it might not be completely valid:
http://www.jpma.org/cfincludes/Resources/PressReleases/index.cfm?section=Resources&content=041706
http://carseatblog.com/?p=88
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/pediatric-crash-experts-respond-superfreakonomics/story?id=8867876
http://carseatblog.com/?p=4857
http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/...story/06-05-2006/0004374684&EDATE=Jun+5,+2006
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/124/5/1281.pdf

 

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Maedze

New member

• Jan 12, 2010

• #4

It's a nitwit rehashing Lewitt's theories, only basically telling parents they don't need car seats.

 

mamahen

Member

• Jan 12, 2010

• #5

Yea some guy who doesn't seem to have very good research methods wrote that seatbelts might be safer than carseats and that all this carseat hype is basically consumerism. Im mad that MSN would publish it without a disclaimer or something. This is just the tiny snippet that an anti-ERF'er would take as fact

 

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Maedze

New member

• Jan 12, 2010

• #6

I left a comment but based on the guy's hyper and ridiculous attitude in the article, I doubt he'll approve it. (It was a civilized comment.)

 

xursusmaritimusx

New member

• Jan 12, 2010

• #7

wow that changed my mind about everything!!!





not

 

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lenats31

New member

• Jan 12, 2010

• #8

What about the deadly side impacts, and what about the injuries to the soft organ tissue in children, much softer bones and I could go on forever

They have forgotten a few things haven´t they

Lena

 

Joyofbirth

New member

• Jan 12, 2010

• #9

Eh, I wouldn't stress over it too much. I think the people who will be swayed by this article are people who were already leaning this way and just wanted someone to say it. They probably would have not used carseat or whatever even without the article. It's one of those "itching ears" things. People are gonna hear what they wanna hear. How many times have you shared articles with compelling evidence and arguments with a friend and they completely disregard it? Same thing. it's a shame that someone would work so hard against child safety though. It amazes the passion with which people will argue against car seats. I get the middle of the road people who are not as passionate as we are, but I just don't get the opposition.

 

urchin_grey

New member

• Jan 12, 2010

• #10

Epic fail.

Trust me, I'm all for anti-consumerism. In fact, I am doing the compact this year. Safety items, however, I do not skimp on. That one is non-negotiable.

 

ketchupqueen

CPST and ketchup snob

Staff member

• Jan 12, 2010

• #11

But if more children died in crashes, they would consume a lot less, since they wouldn't grow up to do it!

Yeah, that's what this attitude leads to, in the end, even if that's not what he thinks he's saying.

I have to agree with JOB though-- people who would believe this would probably not have properly restrained their kids anyway.

 

Jonah Baby

New member

• Jan 12, 2010

• #12

Hmm, we'll see if my comment gets posted.

I think it is pretty obvious that a PROPERLY belted 3 year old could be (could) protected in a lower-impact crash like they tested.
How many 3 year olds in real life STAY properly belted?
My 21 year old "child" can't even do this.

Ridiculous.