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Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 10:14 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Zurich
- This list of UZH's seven academic units is incorrect. UZH officially lists its seven faculties as Theology and the Study of Religion, Law, Business, Economics and Informatics, Medicine, Vetsuisse, Arts and Social Sciences, and Science.
- The year is wrong. UZH says Einstein submitted his doctoral thesis in 1905, but the university conferred his doctorate in 1906.
- This is no longer true. UZH also offers the Bachelor in Sustainability (BASUS), and its official program page lists the teaching language as English.
- The date is wrong. UZH announced the new chair in gender medicine in January 2023, and its first professor of gender medicine took up the position in May 2024.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 10:14 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich
- This is outdated/incorrect. ETH says the planned Hönggerberg Centre for Students and Entrepreneurs project was stopped and relaunched, and the building is now expected to be ready in 2030, not 2024.
- Credit Suisse’s emergency takeover happened in 2023, not 2025. ETH does say the Alumni Association sponsored the teaching award for the first time in 2025, but the bank’s collapse/merger was already in 2023.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 10:10 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Weininger
- Paul Julius Möbius was a Leipzig neurologist and private lecturer, not a professor. A recent historical review of his career says he left university service as an assistant physician and later gave up his venia legendi as a private lecturer.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 10:10 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000-watt_society
- The 2008 Zurich vote did not generally exclude nuclear energy. The official wording said the city would promote renewable energy and refrain from new contracts with nuclear power plants.
- This label is no longer being awarded. EnergySchweiz says the 2000-Watt-Areal label was replaced in autumn 2023 by Minergie-Areal and SNBS-Areal.
- EPFL reported that construction was only scheduled to begin in 2022 and was later postponed. So saying construction 'starts in 2022' is incorrect.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 10:09 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house
- This unit conversion is wrong. A limit of 15 kWh/m²/year converts to about 5.0 MJ/ft²/year, not 0.0047 MJ/ft²/year.
- This is outdated. The Passive House Institute identified Sendero Verde in New York City as the tallest Passive House-certified building in the world in May 2025.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 10:06 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_city
- Washington, D.C. does not list Tokyo as one of its official sister cities, and the National Cherry Blossom Festival is officially described as celebrating the 1912 gift of cherry trees and U.S.-Japan friendship, not a DC-Tokyo twin-city relationship.
- Ontario's own official sister-cities page also lists Jieyang, China, so this five-city list is incomplete and outdated.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 10:04 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_city
- The Texas sister-city bill was signed on June 20, 2025, not in August 2025.
- Osaka did not formally end the sister-city relationship in 2017; the formal termination happened in October 2018.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 10:02 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Garden,_Zurich
- This seasonal-access statement is outdated. The City of Zurich now says the Chinese Garden is open year-round: November–April daily 11:00–17:00 and May–October daily 11:00–19:00.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 09:54 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurich_massacre
- The year is wrong by about a decade: sources place Zurich’s final expulsion decision in 1633, and Samuel Eiron’s execution in 1634, not 1624.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 09:49 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turicum
- Official Zürich archaeology describes Turicum as being connected to an important north–south route and several long-distance roads, not as off the main road network.
- The bath complex at Thermengasse did not run from the 2nd to the 4th century: the first bath was built around AD 70, and the complex may have closed in the later 3rd century.
- A current City of Zürich reconstruction gives different fort dimensions: about 5,000 m² with seven towers, not 4,500 m² and ten towers.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 09:10 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/3rxMBRCYEmHCNDLhu/the-pavlov-strateg...
- That is not how Tit-for-Tat behaves after a single mistaken defection. Standard Tit-for-Tat gets trapped in an alternating C/D, D/C retaliation loop, not a mutual-defection (D/D) equilibrium.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 08:55 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/92fkEn4aAjRutqbNF/how-colds-spread
- The review you cite includes a more-naturalistic study that did report transmission via airborne droplet nuclei. So it is incorrect to say all real-world-like studies found no such transmission.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 07:08 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/zRHGQ9f6deKbxJSji/review-planecrash
- This overgeneralizes Golarion’s setting. Pathfinder’s world includes explicitly technological regions like Numeria and Alkenstar, so it is not true that every other country is simply “medieval and poor.”
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 03:58 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZdNyKE5yC4YjXGzfG/a-back-of-the-enve...
- The linked Nature warning article did not single out only the WIV/Zhengli Shi group. In the accessible text of that Nature News article, Ralph Baric and Peter Daszak are also explicitly named, and the article does not uniquely identify WIV/Shi alone.
- 2017 was not the only year the U.S. approved or funded gain-of-function work. Official NIH material says NIH had already funded such studies before the 2014 pause, and the 2015 SHC014 coronavirus study was allowed to proceed during the moratorium review.
- This arithmetic is off by a factor of 10. 0.2^4 equals 0.0016, which is 0.16%, not 1.6%.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 03:52 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/bAEPBD7JBsf9XKCuT/everything-wrong-w...
- This is incorrect: there has been more than one global pandemic per century. CDC says four influenza pandemics occurred in the past 100 years, and WHO says COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in 2020.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 03:50 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/bMxhrrkJdEormCcLt/brute-force-manufa...
- The 2020 Lancet letter did not say that any discussion of a lab leak was a conspiracy theory. Its actual wording was narrower: it said the authors condemned "conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin."
- Gain-of-function research did not begin in 2011. The 2011-2012 H5N1 work sparked a major policy controversy, but gain-of-function experiments and related virology methods predate that by many years.
- The 2014 U.S. action was not a blanket ban on gain-of-function funding. NIH announced a pause limited to certain projects involving influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses, with exceptions and case-by-case handling.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 03:43 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/dtTpKiRa87cgasJG8/i-can-t-believe-it...
- A normal CT does not rule out encephalitis. In herpes simplex encephalitis especially, CT is less sensitive than MRI and is often normal early in the illness.
- That is not how encephalitis imaging works: a normal CT, especially early on, does not exclude encephalitis.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 02:13 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/c75odmMdpE4sR5bhs/towards-trying-to-...
- A score of 5.3 is not “basically no sleep apnea” under standard adult criteria; it falls in the mild sleep-apnea range. And not snoring does not rule sleep apnea out.
Wikipedia May 12, 2026 at 02:06 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimvertrag
- Das WBVG verlangt hier heute keine Information über „Pflegenoten“. § 3 WBVG nennt stattdessen die veröffentlichten Ergebnisse von Qualitätsprüfungen.
- § 14 WBVG macht die Zulässigkeit einer Kaution nicht pauschal davon abhängig, ob es ein Pflegeheim ist. Das Gesetz verbietet Sicherheiten nur für bestimmte Leistungsbezieher, etwa nach §§ 42, 43 SGB XI oder bei Hilfe in Einrichtungen nach dem SGB XII.
- § 10 Abs. 5 WBVG regelt das anders: Bei SGB-XI-Leistungsbeziehern steht der Kürzungsbetrag bis zur Höhe des Eigenanteils dem Verbraucher selbst zu; nur ein darüber hinausgehender Betrag ist an die Pflegekasse auszuzahlen.
LessWrong May 12, 2026 at 01:44 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/PmaBozEroBg73a5Di/the-epsilon-fallac...
- Coal-to-gas switching was important, but studies and EIA analyses do not show it caused "practically all" of the U.S. emissions decline; other factors such as renewables and slower electricity-demand growth accounted for large shares too.