I didn't share your reaction to the video. You talk about his ego, and say the video is terrible, and the data it's based on is biased, and also criticize him

I didn't share your reaction to the video. You talk about his ego, and say the video is terrible, and the data it's based on is biased, and also criticize him for being awkward. (Hey, I'm awkward. Careful.) Most of these seem like personal attacks, was that the intent? On the merits, I leaned far more towards his position when I heard Ray LaHood's response, which boiled down to, "I don't have the luxury of looking at data, because I'm a grandparent." You said it was egotistical for Levitt to claim he looks at data, but his main opposition literally decries bothering to look at data, that's not a straw man. If our transportation agency can't be bothered to ascertain whether something is a placebo or not before mandating it, I see no reason to treat it as somehow sacred and beyond pejorative.