A look at our mistakes throughout the years. We were snookered. Duped. Fooled. Em-barrassed. Sideswiped by a “discovery” that turns out to be fake. In the 50 years of this magazine, the editors made a fair amount of mistakes. We’ve parroted popular notions that turned out to be wrong; we’ve taken as gospel things that later were proved to be false. (We’ve also exposed a fair amount of fraud, but that’s another story and we’re not here to crow, but to eat crow.) That brings us t


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