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PLAGIARISM AND FABRICATION are the cancer clusters of journalism: From time to time, a disturbing eruption of lies breaks out and a desperate search follows to find some pattern, some explanation.
To say, as authorities frequently do when clusters of deadly disease emerge, that they are nothing more than a statistical anomaly seems woefully insufficient - even when it's the truth.
We are living through one such episode now, as fact-checkers at the Boston Globe and New Republic...