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Just Keep Calling It Fact-Checking And Someday They'll Believe You

The Loom
By Carl Zimmer
Apr 30, 2009 6:14 PMNov 5, 2019 4:44 AM

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Zachary Smith at Talking Points Memo, among others, notes that the Washington Post editorial page editor is still claiming that George Will's many misrepresentations about global warming were subject to "careful fact-checking," some two months after many people showed they were anything but--including some who explained the errors in the Washington Post itself. It's a sad coda to a long tale of op-ed woe.

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