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Yahoo!A 60-year-old Santa Barbara County resident leaped to his death from Cold Spring Bridge to his death on 2/17, marking the first suicide from the bridge in nearly three years. Marc McGinnes, an activist with Friends of Cold Spring Bridge, commented that there is no evidence that the suicide-deterrent fencing Caltrans plans to install will stop suicides, though it might cause people to choose methods other than bridge-jumping.
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Marc McGinnes has no evidence whatsoever that `it might cause people to choose methods other than bridge-jumping'.
There is plenty of evidence that suicide-deterrent fencing Caltrans plans to intall will stop suicide. See the Seiden report where 515 people deterred from jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge were studied; 94% of them did not go on to commit suicide another way.
How can the Independent uncritically repeat McGinnes?
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July 10, 2008 at 5:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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