Now I Just Know That That Ain't Right...

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By Chris Mooney
Dec 1, 2006 7:18 AMNov 5, 2019 10:14 AM

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From an AP article on the Washington Post website:

About 20 typhoons and tropical storms hit the Philippines each year.

Yeah, right....almost as bad a science blooper as Scalia's! [By the way, here's the 2004 Northwest Pacific storm tracks, looks like about 3-5 hit the Philippines in that year.]

UPDATE: Unbelievable, the AP repeats this staggeringly incorrect factoid again here. If 20 typhoons and tropical storms hit the Philippines each year, who would live there?

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