A medical journal corrects an obituary from 1858:

More than 150 years later, and 200 years after Snow’s birth, The Lancet has finally decided to set the record straight. In a recent article, “after an unduly prolonged period of reflection,” the journal finally comes clean, lightheartedly admitting that “some readers may wrongly have inferred that The Lancet failed to recognise Dr Snow’s remarkable achievements in the field of epidemiology,” as well as “his visionary work” in discovering how cholera is spread.

Amazing.

When Grover Norquist used the term “poopy-head” on television in reference to Mitt Romney, he was not himself calling Romney “a poopy-head,” but rather burlesquing the Obama campaign’s personal attacks on the GOP presidential nominee, saying the president was in essence calling his opponent “a poopy-head.” The original reference to the comment has been removed.

This just in from the Department of Clarifications, the above has been added to our interview with Grover Norquist, Washington’s most visible anti-tax lobbyist, and a guy who knows a thing or two about “poopy-heads.”

nwkbookclub:

Hey guys! We’re trying something new today! At 1 pm ET we’re going to our first Tumblr book club chat. 

Hopefully all of you have gotten to or close to page 88 in our first book, ‘Gold’ by Chirs Cleave. What do you think so far? Tell us! We’ll start posting your thoughts, questions, etc. at 1 pm ET today. See you, on our Tumblr page, then! 

Correction: We’ll be starting at 3 pm ET, but start submitting your thoughts and questions now! 

Our bad. We’re starting at 3 pm ET now. But feel free to start sharing your thoughts now! 

An article about Ivana Trump and her spending habits misstated the number of bras she buys. It is two dozen black, two dozen beige and two dozen white, not two thousand of each.

Josh Dzieza rounds up the best New York Times corrections of all time—including, yes, Twilight Sparkle.

In our Saturday post about the California Democratic Party’s ad attacking Meg Whitman but masquerading as an “issues ad,” we described the abrupt ending to our conversation with CDP Chairman John Burton. Through his spokesman, Burton on Monday complained that he had been misquoted. Burton says he didn’t say “Fuck you.” His actual words were, “Go fuck yourself.” Calbuzz regrets the error.

From Calbuzz, the best correction ever (h/t slarkpope)

nerdshares:

(via newsweek)

Fixed.

Ha. Thanks for the fix.