Originally Posted by tw

I was curious who would grab the numbers as if your life depended on it. Numbers being how one so easily identifies manager who are lying - inventing fiction to justify their mistakes - ie Michael Brown. Not providing numbers is how Rush Limbaugh types promote their half truth lies.

I realized after posting this that the number was one foot every four miles; not one foot every one mile. However I stalled, waiting to see if anyone would catch on to this, a glaring error. Well, its been a few days now. No one noticed what is really an essential fact - numbers that put that Scientific American article into perspective. I would have expected UT, who is currently on a tirade about factual accuracy (having been caught stating conclusions without underlying facts) would have caught this glaring error immediately.

There is a big difference between one mile and four miles when using marshlands to protect people. I am disappointed that no one caught this error; the numbers being that important to perspective and seeing through 'myths for a political agenda'.