The book repeats some of history's oldest canards. the widespread canard that every lawyer is dishonest

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This contention should not be taken as a repetition of the canard that Kubrick was a cold or unfeeling director. Peter Tonguette, National Review, "The Sources of Stanley Kubrick’s Mystique," 3 Sep. 2020

And this canard that this exercise was done to make that possible is totally false. Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, "William Barr counters Trump claim that he went to White House bunker for 'inspection' amid protests," 8 June 2020

Recipes include Jamaican and French fare (or a combination), like fried dumplings, saltfish and plantains, confit de canard, and French Jamaican jerk duck. Hilary Sheinbaum, New York Times, "Podcasts Inspired by Love and Relationships," 5 May 2020

When the whole Russian collusion canard collapsed, there was scarcely a word of acknowledgement that 80 percent of the national political media had been pushing a defamatory fiction for the last three years. Conrad Black, National Review, "The Media Versus Trump," 28 Apr. 2020

From the outset of Trump’s term, his canards, such as his claim that three million people voted illegally in the 2016 Presidential election, have been used to bolster attempts to make voting more difficult. Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, "How the Coronavirus Pandemic Intensifies the Fight Over Voting Rights," 7 Apr. 2020

In parallel, the annals throw up an equally casual canard: that women aren’t as good as men at waging war. Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, "‘The War Queens’ Review: The Distaff and the Spear," 13 Mar. 2020

Recently Rutgers University professor Jasbir Puar was celebrated for enrobing the canard of Jewish organ theft in a sumptuous fabric of critical theory. John-paul Pagano, National Review, "Blood Libel: The Conspiracy Theory That Jews Are ‘Anti-Human’," 23 Sep. 2019

Such absorbers would likely be put on areas likely to reflect radar waves, such as the edges of canards, weapon bay doors, and engine nozzles. Popular Science, "China’s new stealth fighter uses powerful materials with geometry not found in nature," 22 Mar. 2018

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