Internet Spread of False Facts and Counter-Network

The internet both spreads false 'known facts' (like the claim that NFL players' life expectancy is 58, which traces to the biased NFL Players Association and is contradicted by evidence that players are healthier than average) and simultaneously plugs journalists into a previously invisible network of scientific criticism that makes them better at spotting methodological flaws—but the open question is whether corrections ever travel as far as the original mistakes, which they generally do not.