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Scary Pew Research

Posted by Graeme in Religion,Wrong at 11:39 am on Monday, 16 February 2009

Many people have called the recent Pew Research Centre poll that “showed” that only 26% of Americans believed in evolution. What is really scary is that no-one seems to have looked closely enough at it to see that it showed nothing of the sort.
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Old news, but….

Posted by Graeme in Wrong at 4:03 pm on Sunday, 15 February 2009

…just in case you missed it (I did till today).

The Guardian was fooled by an elaborate hoax into claiming that NASA conducted experiments on sex in space.

They believed the story because they got the claim from a “respected French scientific writer”, Pierre Kohler. Neither he nor Jon Henley (the Guardian journalist responsible) actually thought of doing some of the proper fact checking.

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