Comments on: Seat belts - again

By: Kate Carpenter

Kate Carpenter — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:34:22 +0000

I may have misunderstood but I thought that Prof Adams campaign was against compulsion, not against seatbelt wearing? I reserve the right of anyone not to use protective equipment freely available, provided they don’t expect my national insurance to pay for it. Risk taking in normal life = good; risk taking as an abdication of personal social responsibility = bad!

By: John A

John A — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:08:37 +0000

Your campaign against seat belt wearing has already borne fruit: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4411639a6479.html

By: Derek Tipp

Derek Tipp — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:22:31 +0000

I came to your site by way of Professor Stott’s site and found your article on seatbelt claims very interesting. Isn’t this so-called “statistic” simply but one example of a whole host of spurious claims made about everything from global warming to the dangers of any food or device etc. We are now so used to reading a never-ending list of “surveys” and other “studies”, that most are dismissed with a shrug.

Good luck to you in your writing to expose this bogus science.

By: James Barlow

James Barlow — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:50:40 +0000

Prof Adams,

It’s a pleasure to find out that you publish a blog. I hadn’t heard about your site until I saw the link at the Adam Smith Institute

Over the years I’ve bought three copies of your book “Risk”, because whenever I’ve lent it to people the buggers won’t give it back.