This is an interesting one, since it shows what goes on in book publishing, especially politically correct masterpieces, where an inconvenient fact can still lead to things coming unstuck:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-16/publisher-delays-book-after-uk-radio-host-destroys-authors-entire-premise-live-air
“Progressive feminist author Naomi Wolf's new book has been delayed by the publisher after a BBC radio host destroyed a major part of the book's premise during a live interview in May. In the course of her research for the book Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love - which deals with the British government's criminalization of same-sex relationships in the 19th century - Wolf misinterpreted the ancient UK legal term "death recorded" to mean that homosexuals were executed. "I found, like, several dozen executions, uh, but that was again only looking at the old daily records in the crime tables," Wolf told host Matthew Sweet. Sweet jumped on it, saying "I don't think you're right about this," pointing out that one of the young men Wolf claims was executed was not. "I was really surprised by this," says Sweet, adding "death recorded is what's in most of these cases that you've identified as executions. It doesn't mean that he was executed. It was a category that was created in 1823 that allowed judges to abstain from pronouncing a sentence of death on any capital convict." "I don't think any of the executions you've identified there actually happened." While Wolf's book has already been released in the UK, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced that it would not move forward with a June 18 date. On Thursday, the publisher told the New York Times: