Today in History

CBC | 01/13/2022

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1920: A New York Times editorial ridicules rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard for saying that rockets would work in outer space. The paper issued a correction after the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing.

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It will be interesting to see how much of the "climate hysteria " they retract in coming years.

[Diogenesis]

they put down the Wright Brothers, too.

Luddite behavior .... or .... Mockingbird??

[rlmorel]

He's lucky he got a retraction. Joseph McCarthy was slandered in his life by the NYT, and they have done all they could to throw concrete on his grave, never mind a retraction.

Heck. The NYT hasn't even rejected the Pulitzer Prize given for Duranty's articles which kissed Stalin's and the Soviet's asses while they were murdering and starving millions of their own people.

Joseph McCarthy has been proven absolutely correct in his estimation of communist infiltration into America and the damage it could do, and through his heroics, we got several more decades where it was disreputable to be a communist, though that began to fade in the late Sixties into the Seventies.

Now we have open communists in the government, and even poking their heads up in the military (though this scum got put down, the black Marxist gals here seem to have skated free)