The Importance of Fact-Checking | #PodSaveChocolate Ep60

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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.

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