Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 01:42:00 +0000 Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 21:42:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird From: =?UTF-8?B?YmFk8J+SvXNlY3Rvcg==?= Subject: Re: It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate to rise in the USA Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,ca.driving References: Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-MGawQNZB+pQ6M8Ghrna1Ov+2xWZMAEBGJdLrlYPdOrl7IEcNx9d/PvEcZbE12Ud9MusKfWMu3BkDTyI!WVDOjC/MKDqaYUO18FY21InWBGqZm7PDpulOpP9g2t9I4WAYbFucdEnidWY1ei7LyNP3D4JipEOV X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2323 On 5/30/24 00:53, Andrew wrote: > bad������sector wrote on Sun, 26 May 2024 19:21:04 -0400 : > >> They don't even have to be looking at the phone or at any display. I saw >> one idiot in whose car I was a passenger frequently eyeball two dashcam >> displays to see if he was recording good clips. > > The main message I wanted to communicate is that people believe in myths > that have no basis in fact when you bother to doublecheck the facts. There's a dividing line you seem to be confused about, the one between science and belief, the two equally are important realms that are by definition mutually exclusive of one another. The latter tries to process issues that the former is incapable of resolving. To think that all that is is what we 'know' in the folly of many. I once read a perfect example of this when an astronomer (of all people!) said "we cannot find dark matter so it does not exist".