Today we wait for New York City Housing Authority spokesman Howard Marder to confirm the numbers cited for public housing infestations in David Segal’s Washington Post piece.
We are rather impatient to hear whether it is indeed true, as Mr. Segal wrote, that there were fewer than 500 actual bed bug infestations in New York City public housing in the last three years.
While we wait, I thought we should take a quick look at what entomologist Richard Cooper wrote to Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell:
Why did Mr. Segal, stop at a single statistic?
That’s a good question, Mr. Cooper.
It’s a good letter; we think you should read it in its entirety.
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