For each and every child on which it was able to obtain records, it lists their name, age, home town, and date of death. Their anguished parents are repeatedly quoted. Meanwhile, the thousands of other children killed in other ways since then by car accidents go unmentioned, and even the number goes unlisted. No, because tradeoffs with safety devices are commonplace. Seat belts, for example, save over 5,000 American lives each year but every once in a while somebody whose life would have been saved if they had been thrown clear was instead trapped in their vehicle by a seat belt.
Air bags do save lives.
The real point here is that while we're off turning little bogeymen into giants, giant bogeymen are stalking the land but not getting huge spreads in USA Today or elsewhere. A fourth of all children in this country are now obese, setting them up for a lifetime of disease and early death. Schools are steadily dropping physical education programs from their curricula and nobody's complaining. Half of all black children in this country, according to Berkeley biologist Bruce Ames , are suffering broken chromosomes due to lack of folic acid in their diets. Broken chromosomes often lead to cancer.