Rolling Stone re-posts RFK Jr. story lauding chemically castrating autism...
At some point in the last several days, Rolling Stone re-posted “Deadly Immunity,” the error-laden piece by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that the magazine and Salon.com simultaneously published in June 2005....
View ArticleMichelle Bachmann: Public health spokeswoman, Rick Perry strategist, partisan...
Michelle Bachmann’s non-factual (and non-sensical) claim that the HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation has gotten an enormous amount of attention in the press over the past 48 hours. (See, for...
View ArticleJonah Lehrer and the Blair-O-Meter: My effort to quantify media misdeeds
Earlier today, I posted a piece on Salon.com on l’affaire Lehrer: Last Tuesday, in a post on his eponymous media-news site, Jim Romenesko broke the news that best-selling author Jonah Lehrer had...
View ArticleSciWriteLabs 8.1: The Lehrer affair, consequence-free plagiarism, and rules...
Last week, Jim Romenesko revealed that Jonah Lehrer had recycled work from a 2011 Wall Street Journal column for a recent blog post on NewYorker.com. As anyone who has been following this knows, plenty...
View ArticleSciWriteLabs 8.2: Is it kosher to re-use wording from Facebook updates in...
Last week, Jim Romenesko revealed that Jonah Lehrer had recycled work froma 2011 Wall Street Journal column for a recent blog post on NewYorker.com. As anyone who has been following this knows, plenty...
View ArticleSciWriteLabs 8.3: Adjudicating the Lehrer plagiarism accusations. Plus: Are...
Two weeks ago, Jim Romenesko revealed that Jonah Lehrer had recycled work from a 2011 Wall Street Journal column for a recent blog post on NewYorker.com. As anyone who has been following this knows,...
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