On Friday, after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing weak July hiring numbers and significant downward revisions to job growth for the last two months; Donald Trump responded by firing its chief.

You’ve probably heard the urban legend about the 19th-century naturalist who spent his life traveling the world collecting insect species and then meticulously categorizing them. Long after he gained international fame,

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” Yet revisions by the BLS were neither historic nor evidence of corruption.