Too Bad to be True

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.5.2007 4:00 PM

Turns out Belgians aren't taxing BBQ to stop global warming after all. Several news agencies (and I) picked up the April Fool joke a couple of days late.

I do, however, stand by my anti-novelty aprons stance in the original post, and continue to support the development of technologies to detect them. 

Katherine Mangu-Ward is editor in chief of Reason.