Word: fabulists
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...greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," has been replaced as chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. In his four years in the post, Inhofe held a total of five hearings on climate change, and the star witness was a science-fiction fabulist: Michael Crichton, a critic of warming theory. Now holding the gavel is California's Barbara Boxer, who has had five hearings on climate change in less than three months. While more hearings are a certainty, she must also help field a flock of green bills being offered by newly empowered Democratic members...
...Harvard Crimson has become first-stop shopping for Ivy League fabulist-catching. Rather than reporting, it seems to me that there is a small army of fact checkers now on board to catch Harvard writers and Crimson reporters for plagiarism. Certainly, this is important. However, given the headlines that have run in The Crimson over the past few weeks, one would think that it has become the preoccupation of The Crimson to become the clearinghouse for catching plagiarism at Harvard rather than a news organization...
...Yau’s charges against the New Yorker as explained in the letter, and then taking questions from the people watching. At one point, the lawyer quoted an e-mail sent to him by the mathematician Joel Smoller, in which he compares Nasar to the New York Times fabulist Jayson Blair. “It is difficult to communicate the damage done to Dr. Yau’s reputation by this article,” the lawyer concluded, adding that Yau sent the letter with “the very sincere hope that they will act quickly and thoughtfully...
...maybe this peculiar mix shares my own vivid nightmares of this deregulation disaster. Imagine this horrific vision. A mammoth Fox News permeating the airwaves in every locality across the nation armed with an ensemble that includes the likes of Ann Coulter—the ultraconservative fabulist whose musings have won her the denunciation from many in her own party; Rush Limbaugh—the corpulent, outrageous personality who, luckily, is confined to pandering to the American public via radio waves; and maybe even Rupert Murdoch himself—the owner of this notoriously biased conglomerate who stands...
...years, Glass disappeared from public view. Now suddenly he's back with The Fabulist (Simon & Schuster; 342 pages), a lightly fictionalized account of his disgrace and its aftermath with a central character named Stephen Glass. You might expect a legendary liar to have a gift for invention. "I am compulsively imaginative," the "fictional" Glass assures us. But you'd never know it from this wan novel about a pip-squeak Raskolnikov who wants everybody to love...