A show like Skeptoid, which pulls back the curtain of pop culture to reveal the true

history and true science behind urban legends, often makes bold declarations about what

really happened in some famous case.

And if we're going to do that, well then we'd better be right all the time.

And if we're not, we'd better be ready to jump up and make the correction.

That's what we're doing today.

We're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, and Exorbitance of E-Mendations.

Today I present another roundup of corrections to past episodes.

I keep a document with every verified correction that someone emails me and every time that

document fills up with a full shows worth, I put out an episode.

At the same time, I post corrections to the online transcripts so that Skeptoid.com does

not become an offender in the insidious spreading of pop misinformation.

Here now is this week's batch.

Let's get started by correcting a misattribution that I made in episode 360, addressing the old

urban legend of all the alleged spooky similarities between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations.

One of my quotes was from a 1995 Anne Landers column that gave a number of examples showing

that any similarities were trivial and statistically probable, while there were in fact far more

differences than similarities.

My mistake was attributing the quote to Anne Landers.

Then I got an email from listener Windel in Greenbelt, Maryland.

So someone who wrote to Anne Landers took on this question and she published a portion

of their letter.

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