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Oh ye gods and little fishes it gets better. So Zvi quotes the paper authors' repeated citations to the two papers that claim car seats don't save lives or prevent injuries. After enough repetition I noticed that one of them was "Levitt 2008". And yes, the paper is Steven Levitt. The Freakonomics guy, whose entire brand is "misread statistics so I can publish a non-intuitive result and go on Meet The Press and write a NYT bestseller".