There's been a story running over the last year or so about the sharp uptake in churchgoing among Gen Z.
This excited religious types, who then projected their own theories on to the data in a rush to explain why.
The theory was based on YouGov research.
Turn out the data was wrong.
Gen Z religious revival claim withdrawn over ‘flawed’ YouGov survey
A report claiming that more young people are attending church services has been pulled after the firm found its data was skewed by ‘fraudulent’ respondents
Kaya Burgess, Religious Affairs Correspondent
The Times understands that it was mainly the result of people overseas who were trying to claim the financial incentive offered for completing surveys; it found that the fraud was human, rather than being caused by automated bots.
See also: excellent piece on the right's islamophobia.
How Jews and Christians came to Muslims’ defence
What an open iftar revealed about Britain’s changing language on faith - and the solidarity now emerging in response
Fraser Nelson