I Think Therefore IB

Martin Eisenstadt from the Harding Institute (photo from NY Times).

Over the past few days there was a rumour circulating on the web that the Republican Vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, apparently did not know that Africa was not a country. Today, The New York Times published an article entitled “A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence”, reminding us that we should always be putting on our thinking cap before trusting the media – or anyone. And yet, sometimes even huge corporations, such as MSNBC, The Los Angeles Times and The New Republic fail to do so…
Interestingly, a related hoax was played on the newspaper itself too, but uncovered pretty much immediately. The BBC has more details.

New York Times Spoof Edition (as posted at the BBC website)