I'm grateful to Matthew Yglesias for taking note of Hunter Baker's little conflict-of-interest problem in The National Review over at TAPPED, the blog of The American Prospect. As Yglesias notes: "Scientific illiteracy and journalistic dishonesty, together at last. Frankly, they couldn't have picked a better moment in history."
Meanwhile, still no reply, correction or apology from The National Review, which was put on notice about this breach of journalistic ethics two days ago. I'm not holding my breath, but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
UPDATE: I'm also grateful to Tom Smith (San Diego Law) and Steve Bainbridge (UCLA Law) for taking the National Review to task over this issue. Since both these colleagues have far more conservative readers, I'm hopeful they will reach some of those who saw the original NRO item. Of course, this will reduce my damages....
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