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A week later, the publication of an anti-lockdown manifesto called the Great Barrington Declaration grabbed attention.13 Co-authored by epidemiologists from Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford, it declared, “Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing

Mythology about AI is bad, then, because it covers up a scientific mystery in endless talk of ongoing progress.

The New York Times was not scrutinized the way any institution that serves a critical public function ought to be. No one was watching the watchdog.

In 1835, not long after the launch of The Herald, the Sun ran a headline story, styled as a reprint from an Edinburgh newspaper, of “astronomical discoveries” by the famous scientist Sir John Herschel. Herschel, son of another famous astronomer, had in fact moved to the Cape of Good Hope in 1834 to build a new telescope.

A PR agent from Burson-Marsteller reached out to a tech blogger named Christopher Soghoian and asked him to write a critical op-ed about a Google product. Recounting the story Soghoian says Burson-Marsteller offered to “draft” the op-ed for Soghoian and get it published in a “top-tier” outlet like the Washington Post, Politico, the Hill, Roll Call,

The Lancet in 1998. Twelve years later, it was retracted by its publisher, who described the claims as “proven to be false.” Ten of the paper’s thirteen original coauthors had issued a note of retraction years earlier, in 2004, based on faulty “interpretation” of the study’s data. The main author, the gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, was banned

The rally represented one of the early—and one of the strikingly few—instances where a Holocaust story would make the front page of the New York Times. The article was 2,783 words long, but in all those words the Times report did not make a single mention of the fact that Jews were being mass slaughtered as part of a Nazi racial extermination