Nightingale is renowned for her career in nursing, but less well known for her pioneering work as one of the world's first female statisticians. But it was actually her statistical skills that led to Nightingale saving many আরো lives.
That "500 million plastic straws" that Americans throw away every দিন is a number that a 9 বছর old came up with for a school project. Everybody just went with it. Sarah Weinberg for Delish, 16 July 2018.
In the early 2000s, anti-smoking advocates seized on one study to fight for expanding smoking bans to bars and restaurants in jurisdictions across the country. The study was BS, but the bans stay. দ্বারা Jacob Grier for Slate, 13 Feb 2017.