TSA doesn't save lives
2019-01-10 21:28:09.989395+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments
Vox: The TSA is a waste of money that doesn't save lives and might actually cost them:
The TSA doesn't save lives, but it probably ends them. One paper by economists Garrick Blalock, Vrinda Kadiyali, and Daniel Simon found that, controlling for other factors like weather and traffic, 9/11 provoked such a large decrease in air traffic and increase in driving that 327 more people died every month from road accidents. The effect dissipated over time, but the total death toll (up to 2,300) rivals that of the attacks themselves.