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maxerickson on Sept 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com ...

Prior to confronting Daisey, they presented his work as if they had fact checked it. They say as much in their retraction:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/r...

My opinion is that they handled it well, but 'simply the ones who confronted Daisey directly and publicly' throws away quite a bit of the story.

knowtheory on Sept 1, 2012 [–]

That's true, but they were not the only ones who fell prey to that either. My point about why TAL stands out is that they were the ones to confront him on it. Not that they were unique in having asserted that his story was true.

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