Tennessee ignored serious red flags before Christa Pike. What were…

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA USA Today investigation asks what serious red flags Tennessee ignored before Christa Pike.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWith me is Orville Szymanski, who studies how institutions miss warnings, and he has a book out.

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   Orville SzymanskiThank you, Vera. The book is called Told You So, Also the Opposite, and yes, I predicted this. Footnote forty.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo you warned Tennessee. What were the red flags?

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   Orville SzymanskiI warned about red flags in general, and also about a shortage of red flags, so one of them was bound to land.

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   Orville SzymanskiIt's all on my laminated flowchart, footnote sixty-one.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's a hedge. Did anyone in Tennessee read it?

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   Orville SzymanskiFootnote sixty-one says nobody reads footnotes, which proves the system ignores warnings, including mine. Which I put in a footnote.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorYou buried it.

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    Orville SzymanskiBuried is strong. Archived, in six-point type, footnote ninety-three.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorLet me ask again, because you didn't answer. What were the red flags in this case?

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    Orville SzymanskiThe investigation has them. My flowchart says see footnote, and the footnote says buy the book.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the warning about ignored warnings was ignored by the man selling it. Tennessee has company.