 In August 1977, having been provided with a copy of the memo by "Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co." plaintiffs before trial, Mark Dowie's investigative article "Pinto Madness", published in "Mother Jones" magazine, emphasized the emotional aspects of the Grush–Saundy memo and implied Ford was callously trading lives for profits.The "Mother Jones" article also erroneously claimed that somewhere between 500 and 900 persons had been killed in fires attributed to the Pinto's unique design features.The public understanding of the cost–benefit analysis has contributed to the mythology of the Ford Pinto case.