Partisan Science
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After an airbag nearly killed me, I began asking questions about ways airbags could be safer for really short people.
My friends responded:
“Are you anti-airbag?”
“Airbags save lives.”
“Questioning airbags is dangerous.”
“Airbag harm anecdotes are not evidence of airbag failure!”
But I just wanted car manufacturers to study what made airbags unsafe for 4’11’’ outliers like me, so one day I could have safe airbags, too!
No one understood. They called me crazy.
That angered me. They can’t force me to have airbags in my car! My car, my choice! I marched against airbags.
Airbag safety studies on the 4’11’’ population were never funded.
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