Submission + - Cats, Lies and the Research PR Machine (sfgate.com)
spopepro writes: While un-captioned cats might be of limited interest to the /. community, I found this column on how a fabricated statistic takes on a life of it's own interesting. Starting from the Humane Society of the United States' (HSUS) claim that the unsterilized offspring of a cat will "...result in 420,000 cats in 5 years.", the author looks at other erroneous numbers, where they came from and why they won't go away.
