How Facts Appear

[rhythmaning]

David Aaronovitch has done some digging on a commonly quoted fact and discovered it is actually a fiction.

Excellent stuff - and a warning not to believe everything one reads - anywhere.

(via @bengoldacre on Twitter.)

Comments

[liadnan]

As Daniel Davies has pointed out - http://aaronovitch.blogspot.com/2009/03/good-blog-post-aaro.html , this is hardly a revolutionary bit of investigative journalism, see eg this from 2006: http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/2006/11/monitored_on_cctv_300_times_a_day_etc_soundbites.html

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

...which just goes to prove I shouldn't believe everything I read...