University of Michigan Heritage Project

The Fake News About James Neel

A cautionary tale of what happens when the appetite for outrage overcomes the search for truth.

James V. Neel in 1970.

Almost anywhere we scratched the surface, a tangle of funhouse falsity would erupt through.

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