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    In a press conference after winning her first Wimbledon Women’s Singles Final on July 9, 2022, Elena Rybakina, the Russian-born tennis player who acquired Kazakh citizenship at the […]

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    The Atlantic has retracted an article in its November 2020 issue written by Princeton University alumna and former plagiarist Ruth Shalit Barrett, citing “serious concerns about its ac […]

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    The New York Times reported a recent study by Brock University of 451 adults, aged 20 to 82. The study found that thirty-four percent of COVID-19-positive participants said that they had denied having symptoms […]

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    Boris Johnson, October 23, 2020

    In the most recent issue of The Times Literary Supplement, Rory Stewart, former Tory minister, described Boris Johnson, the current Prime Minister of the UK, as follows: […]

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    The February 20, 2020, issue online of The London Review of Books features a recording of the first of this year’s LRB Winter Lectures, given at the British Museum on January 31 by Colin Burrow, of Oxford Un […]

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    Bridget Anne Kelly, former Deputy Chief of Staff to Chris Christie, and Bill Baroni, former Port Authority Deputy Executive Director, had their convictions for wire fraud, fraud on a federally funded program […]

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    This is a talk that I gave at the BRAK (Brno Analytic Conference CaL2019: Cognition and Lying) conference at Masaryk University in Brno, in the Czech Republic, on November 28, 2019. I give reasons for holding […]

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    The poster for this Tom Cruise movie about DEA informant Barry Seal says that it is “Based On A True Lie.” There are lies that are true. When a liar asserts what the liar believes to be false, but the liar is […]

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    For years, Melania Trump’s online biography stated that she had “obtained a degree in design and architecture at University in Slovenia.” This was something that she had claimed at least since 2006. However, s […]

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    Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican Convention on July 18, 2016, plagiarized Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic Convention on August 25, 2008. See the plagiarized sections here. When asked about t […]

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    “Weapons of mass destruction, the NSA, and Watergate: many have felt cheated by the lies of the powerful. Yet we all twist the truth to keep people happy and deceive in order to protect. Is lying oddly […]