10 August 2002

Off the subject of movies, Indepundit has linked to the post with the letter from Dr. Omeish, but it is buried deep within a long rant attacking Dr. Omeish. This seems to make exactly the point which was made by the blog Uncertainty Principles in this post where the author of the blog says,

the inevitable correction will be less "newsworthy" than the initial screaming allegations. "Georgia Democrat Cleared of All Charges" will be in small type below the fold, and the finest hackers in the world would be unable to make such a link appear on InstaPundit or "Best of the Web," while the original loathsome smear will linger forever.

The posts in Uncertainty Principles go much too far in attacking people for rasing some very fascinating and important questions and that the author of Uncertainty Principle far too quickly indulges in ridicule and ad homeinem attacks. However, the point that the retraction is less newsworthy than the story is worth remembering.

(Full disclosure (because I find disclosures so amusing): The fact that this news is not given a high profile in Indepundit results in less trafic being sent to this site.)

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