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Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 21:47:27 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
> micky wrote on Wed, 22 May 2024 20:52:26 -0400 :
> 
>> Are you saying that no one texts or reads texts or articles on their
>> cellphone while driving?  And that that isn't dangerous?   that it
>> doesnt' cause accidents? 
> 
> Thanks for asking. It's only fools who don't question common myths.
> I'm a scientist. 

Not even close. 

>My words below are written very clearly around facts.
> 
> I'm saying we covered this many times where the US Census Bureau has been
> publishing *ACCURATE* accident-rate statistics for all fifty (48 at the
> start) states since the 1920s, 

And stopped about 10 years ago as far as I can find. Can you share a link
which shows this accident data for the last 20-25 years?

and their data on accident rates for each
> and every one of the fifty states show NO ADVERSE EFFECT WHATSOEVER on the
> accident rate for any state and for all states in the periods before
> cellphones, during cellphone ownership skyrocketing, and afterward. 
> 
> The accident rate is slowly going down; but it certainly didn't go up
>      *That's just a fact.*
>
> Only fools dispute facts (that's why they're fools).

Looking at correlations - which is all you're doing - doesn't categorically
answer either way. It's certainly factual information, but it doesn't make
your global assertions facts.