[lit-ideas] Re: None dare call it treason
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:14:05 +0900
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:52 AM, William Dolphin <dolphinw@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> Taheri doesn't exactly have a reputation for care and precision in his
> work. In May 2006, he published an explosive story in the *Post *(since
> removed from the paper's site), as well as Canada's *National Post*, about
> an Iranian law that forced Jews to wear a yellow stripe, stoking fears of a
> second Nazi Germany. Only problem: it turned out to be a complete
> fabrication<http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=6df3e493-f350-4b53-bc16-53262b49a4f7>
> .
>
Just a word of thanks to Robert Paul and William Dolphin for doing the
hermeneutic homework to examine source credibility. Always a good idea in
dealing with people who trumpeted their certainty about Iraq's weapons of
mass destruction based on a single source, aptly code-named "curveball."
John
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