The Senate hearing was not designed as a full refutation of Representative King's wild thesis, but it put a more human and factual face on a community that has been badly slurred.
Now, at the beginning of four months of the current referendum debate, the voters are being required to make up their minds amid the same kind of factual fog they faced 40 years ago.
Both shows start with the results of an actual business or challenge and it is uncanny how, in the face of those factual results, people still look to blame others, the circumstances, the economy, the weather, the "bitchiness" or some other failing of their partners or teammates.
This gives her the opportunity to be the face of factual on the channel".
Hunt said she hoped Phillips would become "the face of factual" on BBC1.
But they face difficult factual and methodological problems, not logical ones.
It's scary when you think about how one man's out-dated opinion can become the law of the land despite flying in the face of factual evidence.
But Americans are not the only people whose faith persists in the face of all factual evidence.
It's depressing to learn that the young author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is facing accusations of factual inaccuracy.
And those opposed to their asking about guns had to face up to factual issues — such as why one out of every 25 children delivered to pediatric trauma centers has a gunshot wound (according to the American Academy of Pediatrics).
