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Joel Best, "Just the Facts: Untangling Contradictory Claims" (U California Press, 2025)

New Books in Sociology

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Institutions, Fact‑Checking, and Revising Facts

How science, government, law, and journalism produce facts; the rise and limits of fact‑checking; and why facts get revised (examples: jobs reports, census, maternal mortality definitions).

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