by Sydney Smith on Mar 15, 2013
Trained Gun-Toting Dolphins Gone Missing? Nope, Media Hoaxed by Animal Tale
News outlets, including Russian news agency Ria Novosti and later the Huffington Post and The Atlantic, were hoaxed by a...
Sci/Tech/Health Journalism Ethics News
by Sydney Smith on Mar 20, 2013
Neanderthal Clone Baby Story Disappears on UK Metro, Unpublishing suspected
The UK Metro has unpublished a Jan. 21 article containing a fake quote about the possibility of a Neanderthal clone...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 20, 2013
Jane Goodall is Sorry for Monkeying Around Proper Attribution in New Book
Chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall apologized after the Washington Post discovered that her forthcoming book, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 15, 2013
Scientific Claim in Iran’s Fars News Agency ‘Wacky,’ ‘Completely Nuts’
Is this an example of Iran's weird science? Fars News Agency, which has ties to the Iranian government, unpublished an...
by Sydney Smith on May 01, 2013
National Weather Service: ‘Look out for fake weather pics!’
A fake photo purportedly showing a huge supercell thunderstorm cloud over Lawton, Oklahoma has been circulating on social media, the...
by Amanda Fox-Rouch on Jun 07, 2013
ABC News Aired Dying Man’s Last Words, Family Continues Lawsuit for $5 Million over Consent, Privacy
Imagine: Your husband was hit by a truck and died. A year later, as you’re watching an ABC News program,...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 14, 2013
UK Sun: ‘We apologise to any alien lifeforms for linking them to Scientologists’
The UK Sun newspaper apologized to aliens for a story saying "Flying saucers [were seen] over British Scientology HQ." Yep,...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 09, 2013
PsyBlog Unpublishes Post Similar to NYTimes After iMediaEthics Inquiry
PsyBlog unpublished a blogpost after an iMediaEthics inquiry about proper attribution. PsyBlog's author, Jeremy Dean, told iMediaEthics he deleted his...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 10, 2013
People Mag Publishes Pic of Wrong Woman Reportedly Dating Google’s Sergey Brin
People magazine misidentified a random woman as Google employee Amanda Rosenberg, Gawker-owned Silicon Valley blog Valleywag reported. Since late August,...