The Times
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Who ate all the pies?
A couple of US websites have nominated the graphic below as the worst of the
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Scottish Labour in retreat over crime claims
Scottish Labour has backtracked on its claims of the health costs of knife crime – first brought to attention on this website - as its sources distanced thems
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Journalists go to sleep counting penguins
When a leading journal publishes a mathematical error, how many journalists spot it? Very few, to judge from a recent slip by Nature.
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Getting your VAT in a graphical twist
The website Understanding Uncertainty has nominated this graphic from The Times (4 January 2011) as a contender for the
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Beware of lawyers bearing gifts
The Independent on Sunday (last Sunday) and The Times (today) have run identical stories saying that the number of contested wills is rising, blamin
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Crying rape falsely: rare or common?
The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is claiming that a dirty tricks campaign lay behind the charges of rape and sexual assault laid against him by two Swedish women last week.
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False claims on London road casualties
A letter in today’s Times, from Douglas L Stewart of Aberdeen, claims that the removal of guard railings from roads in London caused pedestrian casualties in London to “escal
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Cameras off, accidents up?
In today’s Times, David Aaronovitch (p 19) concludes that the demise of speed cameras will increase road casualties – a reasonable conclusion given academic evidence that, ev
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Wacky numbers on the learning disabled
Last month’s least likely claim appeared in The Times (9 July, below).