Monthly Archive: August 2016
Bryan W. White
August 31, 2016
On Aug. 26, 2016, mainstream fact checker PolitiFact published a spectacularly awful examination of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s claim that teachers were reporting a “Trump Effect” in schools involving an increase in harassment and bullying of some minority groups. PolitiFact relied for its evidence on an extremely flawed survey from the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center. PolitiFact also…
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Bryan W. White
August 30, 2016
Aug. 28, 2016 email message addressed to the PolitiFact writer/editor team of Lauren Carroll and Aaron Sharockman Dear Lauren Carroll, Aaron Sharockman, Your fact check of Hillary Clinton’s claim about the rise of bullying in our schools was filled with problems, but there’s one that I expect you ought to care deeply about, so I’m writing to point it out….
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Bryan W. White
August 30, 2016
Aug. 29, 2016 email from Zebra Fact Check The fact-checking website PolitiFact recently published a fact check that was heavily reliant on a survey published by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The fact check noted that the survey had too many methodological problems to count as solid scientific evidence, yet the story’s conclusion made it appear that each of you,…
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Bryan W. White
August 29, 2016
Aug. 29, 2016 email from Zebra Fact Check (addressed to Sheri Bauman, Dorothy Espelage, and Jan Urbanski): The fact-checking website PolitiFact recently published a fact check that was heavily reliant on a survey published by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The fact check noted that the survey had too many methodological problems to count as solid scientific evidence, yet the…
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Bryan W. White
August 14, 2016
A reader pointed out we put the wrong date on Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Col. David Humphries in our article about George Washington’s views on the right to bear arms. We had “1889” as the year. The letter was dated 1789. We have altered the article accordingly, including a correction/update notice at the end and an update to our list…
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