A Rolling Stone gathers no facts

The venerable music publication gets a story wrong. Again.

The 21st century has been bad for almost every print publication, but it’s been especially rough for Rolling Stone magazine. (Most will blame the internet, but I like to think the turning point was this cover.) Not only is circulation way down - and its biweekly publication schedule switched to monthly - it’s been embarrassed several times by high-profile stories that didn’t pan out.

In 2005, they published an article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (uh oh) alleging that vaccines cause autism. They were later forced to retract it. (RFK Jr., not surprisingly, still has it up on his website, because lying grifters gonna lie and grift.)

The magazine’s notorious 2014 article “A Rape on Campus” led to the magazine paying out seven-figure legal settlements to a fraternity and a university administrator it had defamed. And then there was the recent Oklahoma Ivermectin fiasco.

When country singer Morgan Wallen was caught using the N-word on video earlier this year, part of his damage-control stra…