when we look at the rhetoric surrounding this issue, and a lot of it is unscientific, a lot of it is driven by something other than the evidence i would agree, you have to take into account. i don't believe the agency will get distracted too much by that. i am sure that the investigators that are the boots on the ground will not be distracted by that. the media, however, does follow the story. the story is written other than those that are tasked to solve the problem. >> there are a lot of stories every day, and in this case, there is a human face on it. the thing that attracts our controversy. we have to try to make sure to look beyond that and look at the data itself in the science. what you mentioned about the black box is of interest. i petitioned the agency to put in black boxes, and the doctor helped remove that forward. we're emergency physicians, we see patients. if you practice the way we investigate, people would slap us with malpractice. we don't want to guess, we want to know. instead of looking back for years and years, we look at it permission to speed up and facilitate

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when we look at the rhetoric that is surrounding this issue and a lot of it is unscientific and is driven by something other than the evidence, i would agree. you have to take that into account. i do not believe that the agency will get distracted too much by that. i do not think the secretary or the administrator will be distracted too much by that. i am really sure that the investigators are not going to be distracted by that. the media, however, does follow the story. the story is written by people other than those who actually are cast the solving the problem. -- are cast with solving the problem. >> in this case, there is a lot of human face on it. it gets on the front page. another issue comes up. but it goes back to the role of nets that is to try to make sure they look beyond that -- nhtsa and make sure they look beyond that. i petitioned the agency to really put in black boxes. ward. we're emergency physicians, we see patients. if you practice the way we investigate, people would slap us with malpractice. we don't want to guess, we want to know. instead of looking back for years