Breitbart hoaxed: Supposed article in "Journal of Clinical Psychiatry" is absolutely a fake

[Maceman]

It was either pulled or the search features sucks (again)

Yes, I just reloaded the window where I had the FR post open, and see that the moderator just pulled it a few minutes ago. The reason: "Under review."

[thouworm]

Thanks for the additional research contribution.

If you had the original FR thread post-count, why did you not post the link??? And cross-post your thread??? That’s how FR research “should” work (along with appropriate “keywords”-—HINT: keyword “vanity” is not helpful for FR research of the subject under discussion)

The original thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2844698/posts

BTW: The thread has been pulled. Admin Mod says it is “under review,” BUT posts in that thread had already posted that Breitbart may have been hoaxed and cited the same absence of corroboration from the alleged source.

[Navy Patriot]

Excellent work, analysis, and conclusion.

I would like to add that this hoax is disinformation, and as such, if perpetrated by a leftist or government employee, it fails to disprove the theory, by the facts being false.

[Spunky]

"I took the trouble to research this because I do not want to see conservatives further distributing this hoax, nor publicly using this supposed study to justify their legitimate concerns about the alarming direction of the US government under the Obama administration."

Thanks so much for doing so. Sadly to say I am finding so many on FreeRepublic only read the first few lines of the article then start posting comments.

Also I find that my conservative friends keep passing around these phoney e-mails as if they are complete truth. They don't take the time to check them out. :-(

[JaguarXKE]

You sound paranoid! /sarc

[wolfcreek]

A ‘companion’ piece. Bretbart on a roll?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.74114b94784222f443eb9cb09e0cddf0.131

[Strategerist]

I would like to add that this hoax is disinformation, and as such, if perpetrated by a leftist or government employee, it fails to disprove the theory, by the facts being false.

Oh please, it's not disinformation or some sort of conspiracy, it's someone having a laugh trying to see how stupid and/or gullible Breitbart and posters on conservative bulletin boards can be.

If it was disinformation the author wouldn't be Ivor E. Tower.

[Strategerist]

What makes this even worse is I did some quick googling and the original hoax article is from 2005.

[Sloth]

Very good work. We need more critical thinking around here.

On the other hand, it doesn’t sound that different from this real study: http://www.livescience.com/18132-intelligence-social-conservatism-racism.html

[douginthearmy]

You can find plenty of threads on FR going back years where the first half of the thread is filled with outrage and the second half filled with mocking as it becomes evident the “news” was from semi-satire or better yet, the Onion.

[WuzYoungOnceToo]

It also shows just how easy it is to hoax gullible idiots like Breitbart, and how stupid he makes the rest of us look by (unfair) association.

[FR_addict]

“It also shows just how easy it is to hoax gullible idiots like Breitbart, and how stupid he makes the rest of us look by (unfair) association.”

I doubt if there is one person out there who hasn't fallen for a hoax. I've noticed that the press has become extremely lazy about checking out sources, including the conservative media. I've sent in research before to various news outlet correcting information they have dispersed. Often, I'm ignored.

What about the great warming hoax that the media keeps perpetuating? Now talk about stupid.

Hopefully, Breitbart’s crew checks things more thoroughly after this.