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Your point was pedantic. The mistake did not fundamentally change the explanation of how the evolutionary theory got its flippant name. The author did make an e
by magicalist 12y ago
Your point was pedantic. The mistake did not fundamentally change the explanation of how the evolutionary theory got its flippant name. The author did make an error, but people often do. Principle of charity and all that.
Let me know when you start writing only bug-free code (if someone has had a bug in their code, how can we trust anything else they have written? Getting the details right is important, after all)
- teddyh 12y agoIf I write a piece of code and ignore the manual and simply guess the names of functions and arguments without either knowing or checking, then you can blame me for the same thing – when programming, either you are very sure of the calling conventions, or you check the manual. In journalism, either you are dead sure of your facts, or you look it up. It’s a few minutes, at most.