Fake research takes media for a ride.

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Fake research takes media for a ride.

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But they did have some good ideas though!
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Web-based tricksters are building up a media frenzy calling for higher speed limits in Australia.

A bogus research company is fooling the media into believing it supports a bid to increase road speed limits throughout Australia.

The group calls itself HighRoad Automotive Research and uses anagrams of Top Gear presenters as authors for a research paper it has published online.

The paper - penned by a bogus research team including authors Jeremy James, Clark Hammond and Richard Mayson - suggests that encouraging speeding on our roads makes for better drivers.
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I read that yesterday - how funny was that! Media outlets being taken in by reports in the names of the Top Gear presenters mixed around :lol: :lol: :lol:
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