"While it might be difficult or impossible to put a head count on "Dieselgate,"..." Well, that was kind of my point. It's no less of a scandal, and BMW still

"While it might be difficult or impossible to put a head count on "Dieselgate,"..." Well, that was kind of my point. It's no less of a scandal, and BMW still deserves to be punished, but just casually linking their actions to deaths seemed hyperbolic. Assuming the MIT study is solid, it's still possible that BMW's malfeasance has resulted in zero deaths. I don't mean to distract from Doctorow's article -- I don't disagree with the central premise -- but "Dieselgate killed people" just struck me as casually lazy. It's the kind of probably-technically-right-but-unproven meme that, repeated enough, is accepted without question. We have enough of that in society today.