This is new, and it is only going to paid subscribers, so let me explain what it is before I get into it.
I kill a lot of pieces. Most weeks I start research on something, find that the premise does not survive the evidence, and stop. That work does not appear anywhere. It just quietly does not become an article, and you have no way of knowing it happened.
I have come to think that is the wrong instinct. What gets rejected, and why, says more about whether you can trust the things that do run than any individual piece does. So from now on the ones that die get written up here.
There is a second reason, which is more useful to you. Most of what I kill dies because a claim circulating online turns out to be wrong, and those claims do not stop circulating just because I declined to repeat them. You are probably going to encounter them. You should know what is underneath them.
Three this time.


