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Article: Consumer Reports' Reputation Takes Hit
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- January 20, 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 ...