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Article: The New Yorker's false certitudes

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January 28, 2007
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It's always fun to spot an embarrassing mistake in the haughty New Yorker.

But it's extra enjoyable when the error is made by Elizabeth Kolbert, the liberal-left magazine's official publicity agent for the Global Warming Apocalypse.

Glaring mistakes like the latest one Kolbert made Jan. 22 are extremely rare. The New Yorker -- winner of so many National Magazine Awards someone should call the Justice Department -- has always striven for perfect accuracy.

In fact, it has a fetish for facts. Its vaunted battery of obsessive fact-checkers, now numbering 16, is legendary in

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