> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://thechocolatelife.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Importance of Fact-Checking | #PodSaveChocolate Ep60 - URL: https://thechocolatelife.com/the-importance-of-fact-checking-podsavechocolate-ep60-2/ - Published: 2024-07-20T20:40:19.000Z - Updated: 2024-07-25T16:39:44.000Z - Description: Episode 60 of #PodSaveChocolate takes a look at why fact-checking is important, beginning with an examination of one of my own posts. - Author: Clay Gordon - Tags: PodSaveChocolate, Live Stream ### **When and Where to Watch** 🗓️ The LIVE episode starts at 10:00 AM ****PDT**/****MST** (11:00 MDT, 12:00 CDT, 13:00 EDT), on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024\. ‼️ ****Join the conversation LIVE!** Watch on YouTube, LinkedIn, or Facebook to comment and ask questions live during the episode. [The Importance of Fact-Checking | #PodSaveChocolate Ep60Episode 60 OverviewI try very hard to get my facts right in every post. But recently I was approached by the author of a script for a TedEd video complaining…![](https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/060ac52e/img/favicon_144x144.png)YouTube![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5tPOw2qgCPE/maxresdefault_live.jpg)](https://youtube.com/live/5tPOw2qgCPE?ref=thechocolatelife.com) Click to watch on YouTube in a new tab or window. Please subscribe (free!) to the [@PodSaveChocolate YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@podsavechocolate/featured?ref=thechocolatelife.com), like this video, comment, and share to help grow the #PSC community. [Watch and comment on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/claygordon%5Flavidacocoa-thechocolatelife-cacao-activity-7220526558485127168-1Y99?utm%5Fsource=share&utm%5Fmedium=member%5Fdesktop). [Watch and comment on Facebook](https://fb.me/e/6uUaBoCdt?ref=thechocolatelife.com). --- ## **Episode 60 Overview** I try very hard to get my facts right in every post. But recently I was approached by the author of a script for a TedEd video complaining about the tone of voice I used (“snarky”) to refer to what I saw as factual mistakes in a video on the history of chocolate. A correspondence ensued during which I offered to review the video and submit what I thought the mistakes were. I offered to update the post if I were provided with primary source citations that showed that I was mistaken. After I started this post and before publishing it I ran into another instance where I relied on my memory – which turned out to be completely wrong – around the coining of the portmanteau “intertwingled.” It is on that topic that I will begin this episode as an object lesson of just how porous memory can be and why it’s important to fact-check yourself and be open to admitting mistakes. As I say in my update to the *Can You Trust the Internet for Chocolate Information?* post (below), in my review of the TedEd video I don’t remember, at four years remove, everything I originally found at issue in the video. There are three main topics I thought worth pursuing – the inventor of the cocoa butter press, the inventor of powdered milk, and the very related question of who invented milk chocolate. [The Importance of Fact-CheckingIt’s impossible to know everything there is to know about cocoa and chocolate. And, much as I want to know everything and strive to be factually accurate, sometimes I get things not quite right, if not outright wrong. Prompted by a member, in this post I fact-check another of my posts.![](https://thechocolatelife.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2020/12/JR_Pods60x60FavIconCutoutButtons.png)The Chocolate LifeClay Gordon![](https://thechocolatelife.com/content/images/2024/07/clement-falize-uJrRY8gUm7E-unsplash-Featured1920x1080.jpg)](https://thechocolatelife.com/the-importance-of-fact-checking/) My response. [Can You Trust the Internet for Chocolate Information?Originally published on February 16th, 2020\. Updated on July 13th, 2024.![](https://thechocolatelife.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2020/12/JR_Pods60x60FavIconCutoutButtons.png)The Chocolate LifeTheChocolateWire![](https://thechocolatelife.com/content/images/wordpress/2020/12/debunkeyeball-unsplash.jpg)](https://thechocolatelife.com/can-you-trust-the-internet-for-chocolate-information/) The OP. [The history of chocolateIf you can’t imagine life without chocolate, you’re lucky you weren’t born before the 16th century. Until then, chocolate only existed as a bitter, foamy drink in Mesoamerica. So how did we get from a bitter beverage to the chocolate bars of today? Deanna Pucciarelli traces the fascinating and often cruel history of chocolate. \[Directed by TED-Ed, narrated by Addison Anderson\].![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)TED TalksDeanna Pucciarelli![](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/talkstar-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/b783d5d8-dd01-483e-957b-84055975bbda/217_history_chocolate.jpg?u%5Br%5D=2&u%5Bs%5D=0.5&u%5Ba%5D=0.8&u%5Bt%5D=0.03&quality=82c=1050%2C550&w=1050)](https://www.ted.com/talks/deanna%5Fpucciarelli%5Fthe%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fchocolate?language=en&ref=thechocolatelife.com) The TedEd video referenced in the above post. --- ### **Questions? Comments?** If you have questions or want to comment, you can do so live during the episode or after. 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