Word: incorrection
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...speech and hence unacceptable, especially on a campus dedicated to the exchange of ideas. It is like preventing speakers from being heard by drowning them out; they have the right to express their opinion, however unpalatable it may be to those present, however benighted or offensive or politically incorrect...
Most Disappointing Peek Through a Looking Glass If you get the wrong prescription at the local vision center, you can just go back and have it changed. Not so for NASA, whose incorrect prescription is spinning around the earth in the Hubble Space Telescope. Because a mirror was ground to the wrong shape, the space agency was saddled with a $1.5 billion instrument that performs far below expectations...
...science adviser, who asked that it be reviewed by another scientific panel and prefaced with a statement that qualifies the conclusions. In an interview with TIME, Bromley made it plain that he believes the EPA's findings of a "positive association" between electromagnetic fields and childhood cancer are "quite incorrect." "There's no scientific basis for that statement at all," says Bromley. "What we're doing is unnecessarily frightening millions of parents...
...interested to learn that the FOP Steering Committee has changed the meaning of its acronym to "First-Year" Outdoor Program, ridding themselves of the politically incorrect, gender un-neutral word "Freshman." I have also noticed that a similar decision has been made by the editorial powers-that-be at The Crimson. While I respect the motives behond such decisions, I wonder if too much concern for gender neutrality might lead to some confusion...
...name of the photographer was also incorrect. The picture was taken by Susan M. Carls...