[paxys]

You conveniently skipped the last line of that paragraph

> However, critics argue that anecdotes of deaths in the dark could be equally applied to darker evenings, and that the elimination of Permanent DST was politically motivated.

[aiisjustanif]

Children deaths tend to be more significant in the eyes of the voting population, tbf.

[paxys]

The point is that there may have been an equal number of children saved from death due to more light in the evenings, but you can't really prove that.