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There was an error in TIME's 10 Questions interview with Al Roker [Dec. 7]. Roker incorrectly reports that "1 in 200" dies of complications from laparoscopic gastric bypass, the procedure he had in 2002. According to a July 2009 study by the National Institutes of Health, the mortality rate associated with this gastric bypass is about 1 in 500, or 0.2%. We agree with Roker that the decision to have surgery is an important one and should not be made "because someone on TV made that decision." It should be made because morbid obesity is a serious, life-threatening...
...surprising that consumers can't accurately judge a teaspoon of medicine without the aid of the teaspoon itself, but the reason for the error tells us something about how our perceptions work - or fail to work. It's well established that smaller plates can help people pile on less food and taller glasses may make even skilled bartenders pour more alcohol. Similarly, 5 ml on a teaspoon pretty much covers the entire surface area of the spoon and thus looks like a lot to us. But the same 5 ml on a large spoon somehow appears to be less...
...Mixing national identity with immigration is an error," says conservative legislator and former Interior Minister François Baroin, who is one of several politicians on the right calling for the debates to be ended. "It's opening Pandora's box." Former conservative premiers Alain Juppé and Jean-Pierre Raffarin have similarly questioned the "utility" and "intellectual rigor" of the debates. And Sarkozy's own commissioner for ethnic diversity, Yazid Sebag, admitted to being "not very comfortable" with the initiative...
Everybody makes mistakes. In journalism, a profession devoted to keeping people properly informed, those errors can be embarrassing. That's why a blog called Regret The Error keeps track of the fourth estate's follies. Freelance journalist Craig Silverman started the project in 2004 after reading the following correction from Lexington, Kent., Herald-Leader: "It has come to the editor's attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the Civil Rights Movement. We regret the omission." Silverman has been tracking media-related corrections ever since. Regret the Error's annual "best of" list went...
...Denver Post: "Because of a reporter's error, Bill Husted's column on Page 3B on Sunday contained an item about a tombstone for 'Elway the Drug Sniffing Dog.' The tombstone was digitally fabricated for a blog and does not exist...