Fake research takes media for a ride.
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:11 am
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.
