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A study has been done, and the surprising result is that parachutes are no more effective than a backpack in preventing injuries when jumping out of an airplane.
It's "common sense" that parachutes work, so it has been a neglected field of science. This surprising and counter-intuitive result is an excellent example of the importance of doing science.
... or maybe it's a perfect example of how top-line study headlines can be mis-representative, especially when portrayed by the mass-media, and how understanding study scope and methodology is important.
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The Official Colorado State Vegetable is now the "state legislator".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 24 2018, @01:40AM
Billions of dollars are spent annually on people jumping from landed motionless airplanes with parachutes?
I don't think they meant to avoid extrapolating to flying airplanes, but even if they had meant to limit the conclusion to stationary ones it would still be fallacious reasoning.