Saturday 15 June 2013

Corrections

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In a June 13 "Bad Astronomy" blog post, Phil Plait identified a 2010 pertussis outbreak as being in 2013.

In a June 13 ?Brow Beat? blog post, J. Bryan Lowder misstated the title of the film Driving Miss Daisy.

In a June 13 ?Weigel? blog post, David Weigel misquoted a joke Roger Ailes told at the Bradley Prizes ceremony. The joke was about a woman who ?didn?t come home? one night, not one who ?didn?t come over.?

Due to a production error, a June 12 "Future Tense" blog post originally appeared under the wrong author's name. It is by Laura Parker.

In a June 12 "Future Tense" blog post, Jason Bittel incorrectly used "refracting" and "refracted" instead of "diffracting" and "diffracted" in four places.

In a June 12 ?Weigel,? David Weigel misspelled editor Dan Diamond?s last name.

In a June 11 ?Jurisprudence,? Emily Bazelon stated that the Pentagon Papers showed that the Nixon administration knew that casualty figures in Vietnam would be much higher than the numbers it publicly projected. It was the Johnson administration that knew the casualty numbers would be higher.

In a June 11 ?Politics,? John Dickerson misspelled Clare Boothe Luce?s first name.

In a June 11 ?XX Factor? blog post, Alyssa Rosenberg misstated the number of men featured on Port magazine's cover. It is six, not seven. She also misspelled Clara Jeffery's last name.

In a June 10 "Weigel" blog post, David Weigel originally left the words "have a" out of this quote: "This is a big country, and people want to have a happy life in a country that's stable."

In a June 8 "Cocktail Chatter," Mariana Zepeda misidentified Beverly Gage as a professor at Yale Law School. Gage is a historian and teaches in the History Department at Yale University.

In a June 7 "Foreigners," Will Dobson wrote that the Sunnylands Retreat is in the Mojave Desert. It is in the Colorado Desert.

In a June 6 ?Science,? Mark Vanhoenacker misspelled Carly Fiorina?s name.

In a June 5 "Crime" blog post, Justin Peters misidentified the reporter who wrote an NPR story on the TrackingPoint rifle. He is Mark Dewey, not Matthew Dewey.

Slate?strives to correct all errors of fact. If you've seen an error in our pages, let us know at?corrections@slate.com. General comments should be?posted?in our Comments sections at the bottom of each article.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/corrections/2013/06/slate_s_mistakes_for_the_week_of_june_10.html

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