Ok, so Snopes comes out with their mea culpa after their hand was caught in the cookie jar. They did not discover the gross plagarism, it was found by outsiders and brought to their attention. The editors at Snopes should have, at the very least, been running periodic checks with plagarism checking software. It is one thing to vigorously "fact check" your own work, and quite another to fall on your sword after you have been caught. And why did their co-founder find it necessary to write under a pseudonym?
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