As if readers didn’t have enough reasons already to distrust the New Yorker’s extraordinarily shoddy “scoop” detailing allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself during a drinking game in college.

One of the story’s authors, Jane Mayer, scrambled Tuesday to highlight an equally dubious allegation leveled by a man who claims to have roomed with the judge at Yale.

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