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Article: Consumer Reports' image takes a hit: Magazine defends record after retracting car-seat findings
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- January 21, 2007
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Consumer Reports once mismeasured the
ingredients in dog food. Just last year, it screwed up the
depreciation rates of hybrid cars.
But it's rare for the trusted, independent magazine to go as wrong
as it did in its report this month on infant car seats. Consumer
Reports retracted the report Thursday when it turned out that side-
impact crashes in tests of car seats were carried out at speeds near
70 mph, not the 38 mph the magazine claimed.
The magazine told its 6.3 million print and online readers - and
the millions more who had heard about the widely publicized report -
to disregard the startling findings earlier this month that only two
of the 12 seats it tested were ...