Editing Naomi Wolf (section)

====Accuracy====
[[Christina Hoff Sommers]] criticized Wolf for publishing the estimate that 150,000 women were dying every year from [[Anorexia nervosa|anorexia]]. Sommers said she traced the source to the American Anorexia and Bulimia Association, which said it was misquoted; the figure refers to sufferers, not fatalities. Wolf's citation came from a book by Brumberg, who referred to an American Anorexia and Bulimia Association newsletter and misquoted the newsletter. Wolf acknowledged the error and changed it in future editions. Sommers gave an estimate for the number of fatalities in 1990 as 100–400.<ref name="Sommers1995">{{cite book|author=Christina Hoff Sommers|title=Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EIUtJziqIqAC&pg=PA12|year=1995|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0684801568|pages=12–13}}</ref><ref name="ScienceOfEatingDisorders2012">{{cite news|last=Pekars|first=Tetanya|title=Naomi Wolf Got Her Facts Wrong. Really, Really, Really Wrong|newspaper=Science of Eating Disorders|url=http://www.scienceofeds.org/2012/06/07/naomi-wolf-got-her-facts-wrong/|date=June 7, 2012|access-date=October 1, 2016|archive-date=February 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207041007/http://www.scienceofeds.org/2012/06/07/naomi-wolf-got-her-facts-wrong/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The annual anorexia casualties in the U.S. were estimated to be around 50 to 60 per year in the mid-1990s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/books/review-outrages-naomi-wolf.html|title=Naomi Wolf's Career of Blunders Continues in 'Outrages'|last=Sehgal|first=Parul|author-link=Parul Sehgal|date=June 5, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 9, 2019|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=June 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609024216/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/books/review-outrages-naomi-wolf.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1995, for an article in ''[[The Independent|The Independent on Sunday]]'', British journalist [[Joan Smith]] recalled asking Wolf to explain her unsourced assertion in ''The Beauty Myth'' that the UK "has 3.5 million anorexics or bulimics (95 per cent of them female), with 6,000 new cases yearly". Wolf replied, according to Smith, that she had calculated the statistics from patients with eating disorders at one clinic.<ref name="Sindy1995" />

Caspar Schoemaker of the Netherlands Trimbos Institute published a paper in the academic journal ''Eating Disorders'' demonstrating that of the 23 statistics cited by Wolf in ''Beauty Myth'', 18 were incorrect, with Wolf citing numbers that average out to 8 times the number in the source she was citing.<ref name="LieFactor">{{cite journal |last1=Schoemaker |first1=Casper |title=A Critical Appraisal of the Anorexia Statistics in The Beauty Myth: Introducing Wolf's Overdo and Lie Factor |journal=Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention|date=2004 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=97–102 |doi=10.1080/10640260490444619 |pmid=16864310 |s2cid=8704509 }}</ref>