Latest Corrections
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 08:04 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer_(armed_forces)
- This is outdated. The U.S. Air Force reintroduced its warrant officer program in 2024, and new Air Force warrant officers were already graduating and serving by 2025.
- This overstates what a commission means. Not all commissioned officers are commanding officers, and some commissioned officer categories are not entitled to exercise command because of rank.
- The retirement date is wrong. Official Air Force reporting says the last warrant officer in the Air Force retired in 1992, not in the 1980s.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 08:03 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-commissioned_officer
- This command name is outdated. The U.S. Department of Defense renamed U.S. Pacific Command to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in May 2018.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 07:17 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_class_the_stars_fell_on
- This overstates McNarney’s role. In 1944–45 he was the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean; he only became acting supreme allied commander in September 1945.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 07:17 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Bradley
- Bradley’s term as the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff began on August 16, 1949, not August 19, 1949.
- Bradley’s 1943 promotion was to the temporary rank of lieutenant general, not a brevet rank.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 07:15 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_of_the_Army_(United_States)
- General of the Army is not the highest rank in the U.S. Army. General of the Armies is senior to it.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 06:51 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_Sr.
- This job description is wrong. Sources say Obama first worked for an oil company, and only later worked as a government economist.
- This reverses the timeline. Obama returned to Kenya in July 1964, but Harvard says his master’s degree was awarded in 1965.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 06:49 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham
- University of Hawaiʻi sources identify Dunham’s degrees as BA ’67 in Mathematics, MA ’83 in Anthropology, and PhD ’92 in Anthropology—not BA/MA in anthropology with the MA in 1974.
- This gets both the rank and timing wrong: Indonesia’s official honors hierarchy places Bintang Jasa below Bintang Republik Indonesia and Bintang Mahaputera, and archival records date Dunham’s Bintang Jasa Utama certificate to March 18, 2010, not December 2010.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 06:46 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Young_Truman
- The Trumans’ first child was recorded as stillborn, not as dying a few days after birth.
LessWrong Jun 12, 2026 at 06:09 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/TTHi7yNheaoepWKfR/reward-hacking-at-...
- This is incorrect because communism is not "long gone": multiple present-day states still define themselves as socialist and are led by communist parties.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 06:00 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Story_(rower)
- Chris Pincher’s 2017 office of Comptroller of HM Household was a Government Whip role, not an Assistant Whip role. Official government records list "Assistant Government Whip" as a separate earlier post that ended before he became Comptroller.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 05:57 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pincher
- This is incorrect: after June 2022, Pincher continued to participate in Commons business by submitting written parliamentary questions in 2023.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 05:54 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restore_Britain
- UK Parliament’s official record shows Rupert Lowe’s parliamentary party affiliation to Restore Britain began on 20 March 2026, not 23 March 2026.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 05:53 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pincher_scandal
- The July 2023 report on Pincher was published by the House of Commons Committee on Standards, based on an investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards—not by a body called the "Parliamentary Standards Commission."
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 05:52 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader_of_Reform_UK
- Nigel Farage was not the founder of the party that became Reform UK. The Brexit Party was founded by Catherine Blaiklock, who was also its first leader.
- Boris Johnson was not prime minister during Catherine Blaiklock's January-March 2019 tenure. Theresa May was prime minister until 24 July 2019.
LessWrong Jun 12, 2026 at 05:00 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gBtGLsqshdTdis7Yn/how-bad-would-it-b...
- This overstates first-year U.S. COVID mortality. CDC reported 513,122 total U.S. COVID deaths by March 2, 2021, and a national analysis covering March 2020 through April 2021 counted 519,320 official COVID deaths.
LessWrong Jun 12, 2026 at 04:41 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gBtGLsqshdTdis7Yn/how-bad-would-it-b...
- The well-known Newark jammer incident affected Newark Liberty Airport’s GPS-based aviation system, not the Port of Newark or harbor operations.
- That overstates the NIST findings. NIST says wireless service would degrade after about 48 hours, but experts disagreed on timing; one estimated complete failure after about 2 weeks, while others expected some voice/text service even after 30 days.
- That death count is too high for the pandemic’s first year in the U.S. By late April 2021, CDC had reported about 566,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths, and a peer-reviewed excess-mortality estimate for March 2020–April 2021 was 666,000 total excess deaths.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 03:06 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Bores
- The gene-synthesis biosecurity bill was sponsored by Alex Bores, not merely co-sponsored by him.
- The federal agency’s official name is the Department of Veterans Affairs, not the "Department of Veteran Affairs."
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 03:01 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_Lasher
- Official NYC Board of Elections results do not support 52.82%. Lasher received 7,410 votes out of 14,081 votes cast for candidates in the primary, which is about 52.6% (or 52.63%), not 52.82%.
Substack Jun 12, 2026 at 03:00 PM
www.slowboring.com/p/hard-work-is-good
- This sentence groups together governors who did different things. John Bel Edwards did expand Medicaid in Louisiana, but Kansas had still not adopted Medicaid expansion as of May–June 2026, so Laura Kelly had not "solved" that issue; and Kentucky’s original expansion was adopted under former Gov. Steve Beshear, not Andy Beshear.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 11:29 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn?utm_source=newsletter&utm_med...
- This overstates the scope of the Apple deal. Reactor later corrected its report after hearing from Sanderson’s agent, saying Apple acquired adaptation rights only for Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive, not the entire Cosmere universe.