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Fake News

I like my news real even when I don’t like the news.

Consequently, I really like the daily Schwartz Report put out by Stephan Schwartz.

Today, he featured a quote from a letter Abraham Lincoln wrote to a guy named Elkins.  The quote features a prediction of doom that precisely matches the conditions we face today of yielding direction of US society to corporate interests.

Great quote I thought for a millisecond.  Wait.  Doesn’t sound right.

Snopes has the story behind the forged quote.

Now if we only had Snopes to sniff out fake drug and medical device statistics, and profit- rather than patient-driven clinical guidelines — wouldn’t that be nice.