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After we posted our critique of Aaron Huertas’ evidence backing his claim about a Florida government gag order on discussion of climate change, Huertas contacted us to let us know he annotated the article on the Genius website. Though Huertas’ response failed in answering the meat of our criticism, he found two mistakes that we hasten to correct. Moreover, reviewing…
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In a commentary piece we did in 2013, we developed a chart, based on Pew Research survey data, attempting to show the percentage of Muslims who favored punishing apostasy with a death sentence. That chart was wrong, so we added an updated chart and a short explanation to the original article. The thrust of the article, that Islamic zeal for…
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An anonymous visitor used our “Report an Error” feature on Dec. 14, 2014: Please describe the error: You cite a study that finds: “researchers from Washington University in fact observed a statistically significant decrease in the number of sexual partners participants reported” Then you conclude that: “The study from the Contraceptive Choice Project gives some weak evidence that free contraception…
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In our first major (known) blunder of 2014, we hit the “publish” button prematurely on a work that’s still early in progress. We unpublished that incomplete work from the “fact checks” category and have reproduced it in full in the “Corrections” category. We do not vouch for the accuracy of this work, which is a rough draft approximately halfway toward…
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