Slate has retracted an essay they published as part of a partnership with Quora, an online question-and-answer site, after acknowledging that they “did not vet the piece properly.”
The piece garnered hundreds of comments, many of which questioned whether its claims were legit, and some of which pointed out that the author may have posted questionable material on the web before.
This now appears where the article, originally published at 5:01 p.m. on Thursday, July 25, originally did: Continue reading Slate retracts essay on whether doctors are biased against obese people