The Glasgow newspaper found it proper to repeat this canard, without citing its source, as an expression of faith in its accuracy.
Reay brings up the old canard about the total fuel cycle costs for nuclear energy.
He mentions in it only one previous enterprise of the same kind (though there had in fact been others) - that, namely, of Nicholas Francois Canard (c. 1750-1833 ), whose book, Principes d'economie politique (Paris, 1802), was crowned by the French Academy, though "its principles were radically false as well as erroneously applied."