The government said 64, journalists said 4,645. What went wrong?
- Professor of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London
If journal editors fail to retract or properly flag data revealed as inaccurate, they leave open the possibility that it’ll be cited for years to come.
A look through the ballot papers shows the declared result in Colombia’s crucial vote is far from definitive.
Iraq’s supposedly sky-high child mortality rate was a key part of Blair’s case for war, and he was still making it years later – but it seems to have been based on a single dubious study.
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