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Botul-ism?

Snowy

Posted: 13 February 2010 11:25 PM

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French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy fell for a “well-rigged hoax” and cited philosopher Jean-Baptiste Botul, the author of “The Sex Life of Immanuel Kant” in his recent book. Only problem: Botul is made up. LAtimes link.

Wikipedia page, translated from the french.

I can’t figure out how he fell for this one. A web search might have solved all his problems before they started.

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Accipiter

Posted: 14 February 2010 11:36 AM

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Oh, I’ve heard of and seen this sort of thing happen a number of times in the past. It’s no different than the various well-respected publications printing as fact the fake history of bathing in the United States.

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Tah

Posted: 14 February 2010 06:50 PM

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Iiiiiiimanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable…

*Cough*

Sorry.

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Bebelicious

Posted: 16 February 2010 10:26 AM

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Tah - 14 February 2010 11:50 PM
Iiiiiiimanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable…

*Cough*

Sorry.

OK. At least I’m home today and can sing that over and over instead of just letting it run through my head all day

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Robin Bobcat

Posted: 16 February 2010 10:08 PM

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It is a good tune.

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1: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. If it does what it says, you should have no problem with this.
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