Why Doesn't PolitiFact Cover Falsehoods About Evolution?

[image error]Recently I tested a little hunch of mine and performed a search of the archives of the leading political fact-checking site, PolitiFact, for coverage of evolution. The result is reported here:

I was stunned to find that the search only yielded 13 items—and upon perusal, it quickly became apparent that in most of these, the word "evolution" was not even being used to refer to the scientific theory, but rather was employed colloquially (e.g., the "evolution" of a politician's position on an...