No more violence! No more killings! No more bloodshed! No more unforgivable crimes! No more suicide attacks! We want security! We want peace! We want justice! We want bread! We want the government to protect us! These are the cries that come from the...

In the recent flurry of moves to ban plastic bags a frequently cited statistic is that more than 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die each year from entanglement in, or ingestion of, plastic bags. The original scientific study upon which this...