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After the lawsuit was filed in a Delaware court, Newsom’s lawyers said they were prepared to drop the suit if the governor got a retraction and a formal on-air apology.

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After the network’s retraction, Operation Healthy Hearts may no longer have grounds to file suit for damages.

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Certainly, some effort must be made to point out falsehoods and inconsistencies, but the same psychological evidence that shows how falsehood and inconsistency gain traction also tells us that retractions and refutations are seldom effective.

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His suspicion sparked a two-decade quest to obtain a review or retraction from the authors of the NIH study, whose work had received $35 million of federal funding.

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The libel lawsuit was settled within weeks, CNN reported, with the website issuing a retraction and acknowledging that Kardashian had in fact been robbed at gunpoint.

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