Claim: Yesterday we posted something about the evolution of rumors. Here's a postscript: Sometimes in addition to developing new eyespots or camouflage, they actually engage in a little adaptive development — rumors that aren't working mutate into slightly altered versions that haven't been debunked yet. A case in point: First there was the canard that Obama didn't have a valid U.S. birth certificate. We were able to help put that one to bed. (Never mind the additional rumor it spawned due to the erroneous date stamp on our photos of the document,
Fact-check: Obama's Citizenship and the Survival of the Fittest - FactCheck.org
Verdict: yesterday we posted something about the evolution of rumors. here's a postscript: sometimes in addition to developing new eyespots or camouflage, they actually engage in a little adaptive development — rumors that aren't working mutate into slightly altered versions that haven't been debunked yet. a case in point: first there was the canard that obama didn't have a valid u.s. birth certificate. we were able to help put that one to bed. (never mind the additional rumor it spawned due to the erroneous date stamp on our photos of the document,
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: Jess Henig
Date published: 2008-10-23T19:00:00