Wired
admits that another
Wired
reporter made shit up: [link]
Wired News has removed three articles from its website after an internal investigation failed to confirm the authenticity of a source used in the stories.
"Tribal Curse Haunts Launch Pad" (June 27, 2006), "NASA Boosts Heart-Monitoring Tech" (July 7, 2006) and "Don't Flush It -- Breathe It" (July 14, 2006), all by Philip Chien, relied in part on quotes and citations from Robert Ash, described in the first two stories as a "space historian" and in the last as an "aeronautical engineer and amateur space historian."
In a phone conversation with Wired News editors, Chien had identified Ash as a professor of aeronautical engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Reached by phone this week, Ash said he is not a space historian and has never participated in interviews with Chien.
Damn. I liked the Tribal Curse one.
I am definitely going to go drinking and get the scuttlebutt from my friend who is a Wired editor...
Bless. I am home and have already sent out over a handful of emails and had two phone meetings. I get to lie down a bit...well, after finding food...until three, I think.
yay, ita. Have a nice naplike thing.
Not being a Francophone, when I see anything resembling 'bestiaux' in a URL in Natter, I have to look at the poster's user name, and make a snap decision. I'm relieved my trust in sarameg was not misplaced. "Odd" is still just odd.
Those pictures were really odd. I mean, they were really well done, but strange subject matter.
FUCK.
Yep. Explains the "sinus headaches" that were so bad I felt sick. Not in a way I like, but it explains it. Blerg.
Jesus. I have severe sinus issues about once every 4-6 weeks. I bet the fuckers are migraines.
The internet is odd.
This is very true.
I need something to do so that I am not just sitting here being irritated at stoopid dentists and adventurious cats and annoying emails.
Jesse, did you watch yesterday's BB-AS?
