Earlier this week, THE WORLDWIDE STANDARD exposed the numerous factual errors in an article by Barry Sanders at the Huffington Post titled “The Military’s Addiction to Oil.” The author was clearly out of his depth–he knows nothing about the military, and even less about global warming. But that didn’t stop the Huffington Post from inviting him to run a weeklong series on the subject. Still, credit where credit is due. The WWS may rarely see eye to eye with Arianna Huffington, but she could give remedial training to her fellow travelers at the New Republic and the Los Angeles Times in how to issue corrections and retractions when faced with obvious error. Arianna’s response to what surely was an unprecedented display of ignorance from one of her contributors impresses us greatly. The Huffington Post has canceled the series. Here’s their repudiation of author Barry Sanders in the form of an editor’s note: