Did a film misquote a science writer?

"American Hustle" won multiple Oscar nominations for a story of which it advised, "Some of this actually happened." Now, longtime New Yorker science writer Paul Brodeur is suing its makers for libel over a scene that, he alleges, misquotes him: "Jennifer Lawrence's character Roslyn tells her husband, Irving, played by Christian Bale, that microwaves take the nutrition out of food," Austin Siegemund-Broka writes. "'I read it in an article. Look, by Paul Brodeur.'"

November 3, 2014

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