WIRED NEWS uncovers journalistic fakery — at Wired News.

Good for them, but Gelf Magazine thinks that, well, it really is good for them:

Since it is unlikely that Wired News has a higher percentage of unethical writers than other publications (after all, why should it?), the fact that two of its contributors have been found to produce bogus work in the last two years suggests it is better than other publications at rooting out cheaters. Why is that? Because it has put into place provisions that make it less likely for these guys to slip through the cracks.

Of course, that also suggests that there’s a lot of cheating going on at other journalistic outlets that never gets exposed.