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angry_octetyesterday at 11:16 PM5 repliesview on HN

A recording of a car crash: discovering on live radio/podcast that the central tenet of your book is wrong, and amateurishly so.

Naomi Wolf 'death recorded' on BBC[1], skip to 5:51. After this the book was pulped and she had some sort of psychotic break during COVID and allied with ultra-right and COVID denialist loonies.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-48639663


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onraglanroadtoday at 5:17 PM

It doesn't seem too egregious an error to assume "death recorded" means they were executed, rather than the opposite where death was recorded as the verdict but not actually executed.

Not checking newspaper reports of the period is lazy though and exactly the kind of thing I'd expect a journalist to do and therefore be the one to discover the flaw.

zahlmantoday at 12:13 AM

Is the video available not through a proprietary player?

> After this the book was pulped and she had some sort of psychotic break during COVID and allied with ultra-right and COVID denialist loonies.

That's quite an extreme shift considering she had previously been a leading figure in third-wave feminism and an OWS activist.

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anitiltoday at 5:33 AM

I wasn't sure if I would be able to listen again - it's so hard to hear.

globnomulousyesterday at 11:26 PM

This is astonishing. How could a person go to the lengths of writing an entire book without ever looking up this sort of thing?

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jandreseyesterday at 11:34 PM

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