Bad Science on Bike Statistics

The rather wonderful and very entertaining Dr Ben Goldacre has used his column in the Guardian today to rubbish a crap piece of PRabout new cyclists from the insurance company LV.

The Guardian,
Saturday February 7 2009
Ben Goldacre

Like a lot of people who spend their time thinking about evidence and risk, I’ve always fantasised that the insurance industry must possess a vast repository of useful data: the experience of centuries, carefully tabulated by actuaries into secret commercial databases containing a truth about human behaviour and risk which most epidemiologists and social scientists would kill for.

Read and enjoy. LV aren't just wrong, they are scaremongering. Cycling is actually getting safer.
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cycling, bad science

Help Save the Bristol to Bath Railway Path

The Bristol to Bath Railway path was the very first Sustrans path. It is now in danger of being turned into an express bus route. The destruction of such an important cycle route would set a precedent which would make it easier for other cycle routes to be destroyed.

A campaign is now up and running - web site is http://www.railwaypath.org

Sign the petition via http://www.railwaypath.org/petition



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cycling, cycle path