Reay brings up the old canard about the total fuel cycle costs for nuclear energy.
The Glasgow newspaper found it proper to repeat this canard, without citing its source, as an expression of faith in its accuracy.
Monbiot has comprehensively answered the right-wing canard that the Global Justice Movement only knows what it doesn't want.
Balzac said of him that he " invented the lightning-rod, the hoax (` le canard ') and the republic."
He mentions in it only one previous enterprise of the same kind (though there had in fact been others) - that, namely, of Nicholas Francois Canard (c. 1750-1833 ), whose book, Principes d'economie politique (Paris, 1802), was crowned by the French Academy, though "its principles were radically false as well as erroneously applied."