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The debate Wednesday that preceded the House passage of FIT21 was typically tone-deaf and filled with fictitious and factitious assertions.

That didn’t happen here because Drozd, an Obama appointee, can recognize a factitious claim for standing when it swims into his ken.

This is a useful inquiry, because we in the modern world are inundated by manipulated or factitious statistics, fabricated by marketers and politicians, promoted on social media and swallowed whole by news organizations.

The attacks take many forms, all of them chiefly employed by Republicans and their right-wing acolytes and all of them equally factitious.

Prof Marc Feldman is one of the world's most renowned experts on factitious disorders like Munchausen syndrome.