05 Feb 2009

How to admit to, and correct, a mistake

Hey, New Scientist! Yes, you, Roger Highfield, if your ego-trawl is working. This is how you correct a mistake that someone who writes for you made:

Correction: January 29, 2009
An article on Saturday about the book “The Other Side of Desire: Four Journeys Into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing,” by Daniel Bergner, referred incorrectly to an enterprise of a woman known as the Baroness who is interviewed in the book. While she hosts what she describes as New York’s longest-running fetish party, she does not run an S&M dungeon.

This has been a public service announcement on behalf of ethical bloggers everywhere.

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