The bridge had been inspected as recently as November, said Dave Chesson, a spokesman for the Washington Department of Transportation.

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Dave Chesson, a state DOT spokesman, said there were no signs leading up to the bridge warning about its clearance height.

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While it would be a formidable task to check every study Wagenaar et al. subsumed in their meta-analysis, a quick check to find out whether they included a study with a known systematic bias reveals the study included Chesson et al., a study by the Centers for Disease Control which claimed that increased beer taxes could reduce the rate of gonorrhea.

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