Corrections, clarifications, additions and notes for: Global Lies? Evidence on global commitments and large-scale social science (draft of 16 October 2018, available at globalfactcheck.org/documents) Matt Berkley Please note: The 2500-page draft of 16 October 2018 is a corrected version of the draft of 22 March 2018. It does not contain new material since March 2018. For new material since March 2018, please see globalfactcheck.org/documents. ................. Possible substantial revisions: Substantive item to be added: 1995 World Summit for Social Development goals for 2000 and 2015 agreed or reaffirmed by the reported 117 world leaders and 69 representatives of other countries in Copenhagen. "It seems that most of the relevant articles in the Lancet mislead on world leaders' promises of 2000...The Lancet received a complaint which included the point that its editor and ombudsman had misled in the same way" should replace "...its editor ombudsman had misled in the same way." To check:World Bank treatment of rent and home ownership for the global poverty claims: Relevant parts of the draft need to be checked in view of conflicting statements in the World Bank methodology documents from various years. To check: 2017 World Health Assembly: Relevant part needs to be checked to ensure it is correct and worthwhile. Last page (if this material is kept) to include more and/or recent BBC failings. For example the failures to inform people - that the 2030 Agenda is more than 'SDGs', or - of the "solemn commitment" of 2011, or - that the 2012 Conference agreed that SDGs were to be based on Agenda 21, or - of SDG targets for 2020. Perhaps add incorrect/misleading statements by BBC staff and/or published by Trustees about complaints. Page 92 needs an extra part on goals for water and sanitation for all humans by 2020 and 2025, agreed at UN conferences in 2011 and 1992 respectively. The same may apply to some other sections, especially if written before I took those into account. To reconsider: "The [UN members'] commitment was to the most ambitious of any relevant pledges made in UN resolutions and still current." Nations might claim the reaffirmations in UN conference and summit outcomes only apply to previous conference and summit outcomes and not other resolutions. But then we might ask what the point is of making other resolutions. ........................ Relatively minor revisions I wrongly implied that an erroneous passage on the Washington Post website is from the newspaper staff. However, the newspaper has itself repeatedly made the same error. The text dated 19 September 2008, wrongly claiming the "MDGs" are what was agreed in 2000 (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/09/obama-and-the-economic-rescue.html) is in fact from a reader's comment, not part of the Washington Post article as I implied. The reader's comment was quoting from Accuracy in Media: https://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-global-tax-proposal-up-for-senate-vote/ However, the Washington Post itself has made the same error on numerous occasions. Item on Full Fact, poverty and the World Bank with the date 17 February 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20160903093109/https://fullfact.org/economy/factcheck-measuring-low-pay-isnt-same-measuring-poverty/ For some reason the current Full Fact page gives an earlier date: 'published 1 Dec 2014', while this archived version says 'last updated 1 Dec 2014': https://web.archive.org/web/20161223061224/https://fullfact.org/economy/factcheck-measuring-low-pay-isnt-same-measuring-poverty/ Page 1905 needs revision - the phrase from the Millennium Declaration seems superflous: "We request the General Assembly to review on a regular basis the progress made in implementing the provisions of this Declaration" "116" should read "117" in "The figure of...Heads of State or Government" for the 1995 World Summit for Social Development. New url: https://www.clareshort.org/speeches/labour-party-conference-address (though not needed as the archived url works) Telephone discussion with UN Chief of Statistical Services seems to have been 30 August 2002 or possibly September 2002 from my notes. "The later "MDG architect" " ................................................ Minor changes: "described given" "Human rights declarations are more..." should read "twenty-five years" rather than "fifteen". Letter "numbering" after "you may need more food if" "differenty" ............................................... To add to index: More on inequality. To change in index: Full Fact, \''the UK's independent fact-checking charity\'' Governance question arises because countries accepted FAO fake baseline and fake "MDG" target, 143 Change "they" to "member states": "World leaders at 2015 Summit fail to mention Millennium and other goals which they were supposed to review, 1897, 1906" Expand index entry: "survival rates are the first thing, 940" Duplicate in index: "MDG architects" from OECD and World Bank were told in April 2001 of the basic statistical error of omitting those who die, 641 "MDG architects" from OECD and World Bank were told in April 2001 of the basic statistical error of omitting those who die, 146 ................................ An attempt at a change log: Changes from draft of 22 March 2018 to draft of 16 October 2018 Changed subtitle of document. Changed "contents" and "index" to "partial contents", "partial...contents" "and "partial index". Changed "2017" to "2018" in headline of item on World's Largest Lesson, as in draft 615. Corrected "September 2000" to "September 2017" in same part. Corrected deadline for Agenda 21 goal on chemicals from "2020" to "2000". UN members misled the public at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, and world leaders misled at the 2005 World Summit, that the goal was for 2020. The easier 2020 goal was agreed at the 2002 Summit under the false idea that it was a renewal of the Agenda 21 goal. Corrected, in context of High-Level Political Forum, "meaning representatives of" to "open to all member states". Corrected "Seem compare" on page 45 to "seem to compare". Corrected, for the item relating to 14 January 2018, "The BBC, having corrected an article in 2013 making the same error" to "The BBC, having *amended* an article in 2013 making *a similar* error". In fact after the complaint BBC News introduced a new error to the article, referring to a non-existent target: "The Millennium Development Goal target for access to *improved sources* of water has already been reached". https://web.archive.org/web/20130904031738/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22719812