Report: White House Pressured Scientists to Underestimate BP Spill Size

[zipplewrath]

5. Bad headline

It's not entirely clear from PEER's release, though, what was real reason for the inaccurate figures—a single scientist giving inaccurate information, the White House pressuring him to do so, or the White House screwing up the reporting of the figures. Whatever it was, it resulted in the public getting a dramatically inaccurate impression about the size of the spill.

Confusion reigned and too many people that don't understand a Hertz from an RPM in the communication chain.