commanderkai commanderkai:
There have been plenty of stories where legitimate news agencies created a story based on fake evidence. One of the biggest cases of this in recent memory is the Killian documents controversy aired in 2004 by CBS 60 Minutes. Go back 11 years earlier, Dateline NBC literally rigged General Motors pickups to explode in a simulated collision. Obviously there's more, but those two come to the top of my head immediately.
It happens every day. Someone posts an article claiming it's legit, someone else creates a Wikipedia article using it as a proof, and someone else uses those information sources to prove that the story has been verified by an independent source.
So many science journals are full of bullshit like this.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ew-cancer/