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		DataWorker on May 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Depression-Gene Studies Were Built on Shaky Founda... Perhaps publish or parish applies to journalism as well. Factchecking costs money and not everyone has ssc’s budget.

unityByFreedom on May 21, 2019 [–]

> Factchecking costs money

Authors who do not fact-check are writing fiction. That is not journalism.

> not everyone has ssc’s budget

What budget? It's one or a handful of people writing a blog. I'm sure the budget of The Atlantic, founded in the 1800s, dwarfs that of SSC.

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