In case you hadn’t noticed, I recently added a “What I’m Reading” sidebar to the site. It’s over there to the right. I link to relevant articles that I find interesting or of note. And now, every once in a while, I’ll post a round-up of some of those links to make sure you don’t miss out on them. They’re all worth checking out. Enjoy.
Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two-Decade Low – Pew Research Center
pewresearch.org | September 14, 2009
More bad news re: trust and accuracy.
DISPUTATIONS: Spy Games | The New Republic
The New Republic | September 16, 2009
Victor Navasky demands satisfaction from The New Republic.
FACTS, ERRORS AND THE KINDLE | More Intelligent Life
moreintelligentlife.com | September 4, 2009
I’m interviewed in this Economist story about book errors and corrections.
Accidental headline of the year | Media Monkey | Media | guardian.co.uk
Guardian | September 1, 2009
A horror story involving the correction of a published scientific article – Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
stat.columbia.edu | August 25, 2009
In our review of “Ruined”, Lynn Nottage’s play, “Political charge” (May 23rd), the phrase “violent genital mutilation” was written as “violent genetic mutilation”. Our apologies.
We would like to apologise to the world’s pathologists for suggesting that the histological examination of excised tumours is carried out by “technicians”, as suggested last week in “Illuminating surgery”. The pathologists who perform this work are, of course, physicians who specialise in the examination of tissue samples.
An article in the issue dated October 18th (”Treatment on a plate”) described a nutritional approach to the treatment of drug addiction. Part of the article was reported from a conference, one of whose organisers is a nutritionist with a commercial interest in the relationship between diet and brain function. It has been drawn to our attention that the author of the article is also the co-author of a book with this organiser. Had we known this at the time, we would not have commissioned the piece from him. It has also been suggested that some of the studies alluded to were too small to support the conclusions drawn from them. The article made clear that these studies (which had been published independently of the conference) were preliminary and that further investigation would be needed to substantiate this approach. However, it may not have been clear that the experiments were conducted using nutrients found in the foodstuffs mentioned, rather than using the foods themselves.
Our review last week of the British Museum’s new exhibition, “Hadrian: Empire and Conflict”, mistakenly reported that the Roman emperor Hadrian commissioned the Parthenon. It is, of course, the Pantheon that is Hadrian’s most famous monument. Our thanks to the 46 readers who have written in to point this out, and our apologies for the howler
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