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more about #correction more comments → iElvis: Anyone who gets their science from a daily newpaper, let alone the editorial page, is beyond hope anyway. And that goes double for TV news, and trip... more » Tom Trelvik: But it wasn't a matter of believing Newton -- they were the ones citing Newton in their editorial against Goddard -- it was a matter of misunderstandi... more » Lester Dean: Was this The Times or The Pope? more » jetRink: I'm going to be expecting more than a little three paragraph apology from some people after I build that enormous treadmill and buy a plane with frict... more » PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: If any day now people can start believing Darwin as well, that'd be great. more » Tired_: Not bad. It only took Gizmodo 40 years to pick up on it. more » jepzilla: The most amusing part is that was published on July 17th, 1969. Apollo 11 launched on July 16th. Journalists are a lot more credulous these days. more » infmom: How long did it take the Catholic Church to catch on to the fact that Galileo wasn't talking through his hat? :) more » -
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It Took The New York Times 49 Years to Believe Isaac Newton
It may have taken me ages to hear about this story, but it took The New York Times 49 years to issue a correction to an editorial dismissing space travel. I guess they'd finally opened up their high school textbooks. More »
