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so to recap, it wasn't the pinto that nader was involved with, it was the corvair. all of the sensational safety arguments he made about the corvair were later proven conclusively to be false, by the NHTSA, the very organization spawned by the furor he created.

he's a charlatan. he manufactured a safety scare for no reason other than to make a name for himself. did good come out of it? certainly. do the ends justify the means? certainly not.

nader is not the father of consumer advocacy. nader has done very little directly as a consumer advocate. again, i refer you to Consumer's Union, which *has* been doing direct, focused, customer advocacy since the 1930's.