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Freakonomics Authors Hoodwinked?

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The authors of the best-selling book Freakonomics recount that the subject of one of their stories, a self-described Ku Klux Klan infiltrator, may have, how shall I put this, embellished his tales of heroism just a teeny bit.

Money quote: "The story of Stetson Kennedy was one long series of anecdotes – which, no matter how many times they were cited over the decades, were nearly all generated by the same self-interested source."

Link:  Hoodwinked?   Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt, NY Times, Jan. 8, 2006.

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    JILL BOWEN

    IF STETSON KENNEDY WAS NOT THE SAME MAN WHO ATTENDED THEIR MEETINGS, WHO STOOD UP AS “JOHN PERKINS” WHEN HE WAS CALLED TO THE WITNESS STAND FOR THE kLU kLUX kLAN, WOULDN’T THE kLAN HAVE NOTICED? WOULDN’T THEY HAVE HAD STESON KENNEDY & HIS EVIDENCE, (ALONG WITH THE CASE),THROWN OUT OF COURT? OF COURSE THEY WOULD HAVE!! COME ON, THE kkk ISN’T THAT DUMB AS TO MISS THAT POSSIBLE LOOP WHOLE!

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