{"id":36432,"date":"2012-09-02T21:56:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/im-a-journalism-professor-and-science-journalist\/"},"modified":"2012-09-02T21:56:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T21:56:45","slug":"im-a-journalism-professor-and-science-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/im-a-journalism-professor-and-science-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m a journalism professor and science journalist, and though I&rsquo;ve written for Wired once or twice (and I happen to know and like Wired&rsquo;s editor, Chris Anderson), I was a relatively neutral, outside party who could check Lehrer&rsquo;s blog for journalistic malfeasance. So Wired.com asked me to take a look.<\/p>\n<p>My task was not to decide whether Lehrer got everything right\u2014every journalist makes mistakes and misinterprets things\u2014but to determine whether he recycled, fabricated, plagiarized, or otherwise breached journalistic ethics. <\/p>\n<p>I soon came to the conclusion that he had.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2012\/08\/jonah_lehrer_plagiarism_in_wired_com_an_investigation_into_plagiarism_quotes_and_factual_inaccuracies_.html\">Jonah Lehrer plagiarism in Wired.com: An investigation into plagiarism, quotes, and factual inaccuracies. &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a> click through for the details.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m a journalism professor and science journalist, and though I&rsquo;ve written for Wired once or twice (and I happen to know and like Wired&rsquo;s editor, Chris Anderson), I was a relatively neutral, outside party who could check Lehrer&rsquo;s blog for journalistic malfeasance. So Wired.com asked me to take a look. My task was not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539,1775,1774,357,1377,1776,1773,610,1771,433],"class_list":["post-36432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","tag-ethic","tag-fable","tag-fiction","tag-integrity","tag-journalism","tag-myth","tag-remix","tag-storytelling","tag-truth","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9tC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}