Leary/Guardian SNAFU makes list of the best journalism mistakes of 2006

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The Check the Domain Award
A site called Gullible.info that serves up fake trivia saw one of its invented factoids end up in a story in the Guardian. Here’s the original June 2005 post from Gullible.info:

LSD guru Timothy Leary claimed to have discovered an extra primary color he referred to as "gendale.”

From there it made its way into a Wikipedia bio of Leary (it has since been removed) and then in April it showed up in a Guardian article:

He exhorted America to "turn on, tune in and drop out” and claimed to have discovered a new primary colour – which he called gendale. Now Timothy Leary, the eccentric spokesman of the 1960s counter-culture, is to become the subject of a Hollywood movie.

Did you also know that “gullible” is not in the dictionary? Link

Check it out for yourself.

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