CLANK! Reality strikes The Daily Beast after posting 2-year-old sexist-hurricane clickbait

We get that Tropical Storm Hermine is in the news, but check out what The Daily Beast is doing for a few extra clicks:

Hurricanes w/ female names historically more 'deadly' b/c people take them less seriously: https://t.co/kqaoBXt0dm pic.twitter.com/0F0HN9I2f0

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 1, 2016

What this links to is a 2014 Washington Post piece titled, “Female-named hurricanes kill more than male hurricanes because people don’t respect them, study finds.”

This study was quickly debunked, also in 2014:

As @EricHolthaus explained, the study that this is based on is garbage. https://t.co/wkl6jkv2Si https://t.co/BilIUUr17K

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) September 1, 2016

#HowToStartAMetFight again. No idea why this nonsense is still making the rounds. https://t.co/NU7dIhZNgz

— Matt Lanza (@mattlanza) September 1, 2016

This is the dumbest shit I've read in a while https://t.co/SnMJHBLqRZ

— Brandon Scott (@Beymour) September 1, 2016

Oh ffs this story is really coming back again? Really? https://t.co/ryXEoAoRO9

— Brian Kahn (@blkahn) September 1, 2016

this has been fully debunked. So are you repeating this nonsense due to laziness or sexism?

— shaunmclean (@shaunmclean) September 1, 2016

Or both.

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