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Wikipedia Jul 4, 2026 at 03:30 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- This is incorrect: the Liberty Bell is housed inside the Liberty Bell Center, not across the street from it.
- This is misleading: John Trumbull's famous painting does not show the signing of the Declaration. It depicts the draft being presented to Congress on June 28, 1776.
Wikipedia Jul 4, 2026 at 02:27 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- This is incorrect: the Liberty Bell is housed inside the Liberty Bell Center, not across the street from it.
Wikipedia Jul 4, 2026 at 02:08 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Williamson_(bishop)
- The cited phrase is misattributed to Richard Williamson. Reporting on the alleged Viganò re-consecration and Viganò’s own December 2023 statement attribute this language to Carlo Maria Viganò, not to Williamson.
Wikipedia Jul 4, 2026 at 09:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Rockwell
- The date is off by 10 days: Rockwell’s Mother Tucking Children into Bed was the cover of The Literary Digest dated January 29, 1921, not January 19, 1921.
Wikipedia Jul 4, 2026 at 09:24 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms_(Rockwell)
- This mixes up the first war-loan drive with the final Victory Loan. The first War Loan began on November 30, 1942, while the Victory Loan was the eighth and final drive in late 1945.
- The end date is wrong. The Guggenheim lists the exhibition as running until March 3, 2002, not February 11, 2002.
- The number is overstated. Contemporary summaries from the Norman Rockwell Museum and Smithsonian say the Post received about 25,000 reprint requests, not millions.
Substack Jul 4, 2026 at 05:48 AM
davidoks.blog/p/why-china-got-rich-and-india-didnt
- This is incorrect because India’s 1975–1977 Emergency suspended normal democratic safeguards: elections were postponed, the press was censored, and judicial review was weakened.
Wikipedia Jul 4, 2026 at 01:47 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression#Lossy_2
- This conflates two different codecs. H.263 was an ITU-T standard approved in 1996, while MPEG-4 Visual was developed separately by ISO/IEC a few years later.
- H.264/AVC was developed by the ITU-T/ISO Joint Video Team, not primarily by those companies. The named company IP Bridge was not even established until July 2013.
Wikipedia Jul 3, 2026 at 10:38 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity
- This groups together series from different centuries. Official Star Trek sources place The Original Series in the 23rd century and Enterprise in the 22nd century, not the 24th.
- This misidentifies Beyond This Horizon as a novella. It is generally classified as a novel, including by its publisher and by the title's own reference page.
Wikipedia Jul 3, 2026 at 10:30 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_wager
- This describes Wallace’s 1870 Bedford Level setup incorrectly. Contemporary accounts say he used three signals over a six-mile span, with the middle signal three miles from each end—not two markers 5 km apart.
- The original supersymmetry wager was not set to be decided in 2011. The 2000 document set the deadline at June 21, 2010; 2011 was the year participants met and agreed on a five-year extension.
Wikipedia Jul 3, 2026 at 10:24 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Simon
- This is incorrect: in inflation-adjusted terms, the previous peak that 2008 surpassed was in 1980, not the 1860s.
- This is outdated and incorrect. Crude oil prices rose above $50 soon after 2015 and were far higher in later years.
- The organization is misnamed here. Its official name is the American Economic Association.
Wikipedia Jul 3, 2026 at 10:23 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb
- This sentence gets the timing of the population-growth peak wrong. Authoritative datasets do not place the world's annual population-growth peak in 1968 at 2.09%; 1968 was already below the peak in both UN-derived and World Bank series.
- This mixes up global and developing-country statistics. The FAO figures behind the 33% and 16% numbers refer to developing countries, not the world's population as a whole.
Wikipedia Jul 3, 2026 at 10:23 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_technology
- This is outdated. Stone tools from Lomekwi 3 in Kenya date to about 3.3 million years ago, substantially earlier than 2.5 million years.
- This date is too recent. Authoritative human-origins references place the emergence of Homo sapiens, including anatomically modern humans, at about 300,000 years ago.
- This is an anachronism. Epigenetic sequencing is a modern genomics technique, not an ancient Chinese invention.
- This overstates what the Human Genome Project completed. NHGRI says the 2003 project sequence covered over 90% of the genome; the first truly complete human genome sequence was not announced until 2022.
Wikipedia Jul 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Resource
- This ISBN is for the 1998 paperback edition, not a 1996 paperback edition.
LessWrong Jul 3, 2026 at 07:12 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/9dgbhEg8QRfRo6r3j/certain-exotic-neu...
- 2C-D and related 2C compounds are not neurotransmitters. They are synthetic psychedelic phenethylamines that act on receptors, whereas neurotransmitters are endogenous chemicals released by neurons.
- The Federal Analog Act did define what a "controlled substance analogue" is. The statute expressly sets out a legal definition in 21 U.S.C. § 802(32).
LessWrong Jul 3, 2026 at 06:48 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/XTHa5C6SgGKYopH7o/who-got-breasts-fi...
- OnlyFans is privately held, so it does not have a public market capitalization. Recent coverage described it as having about a $3.15 billion private-company valuation, which is a different concept.
LessWrong Jul 3, 2026 at 06:41 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/XTHa5C6SgGKYopH7o/who-got-breasts-fi...
- OnlyFans does not have a public market capitalization, because its parent company is privately held. Reporting around the company discusses private-sale valuations, not market cap.
Substack Jul 3, 2026 at 06:38 PM
www.cremieux.xyz/p/statins-and-strength?utm_source=substack&...
- That statement is not generally correct: in standard hypothesis testing, a p-value equal to the prespecified alpha is conventionally treated as meeting the significance threshold (p ≤ α), not failing it.
- This misstates the paper. The STOMP authors did report the myalgia result as significant, giving p = 0.05 and concluding that the trial confirmed increased muscle complaints with atorvastatin.
- The STOMP paper reports that 468 subjects were randomized, not 420. The 420 figure is not the randomized sample size.
LessWrong Jul 3, 2026 at 06:26 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/iEhqyMGGD4BHQapLA/i-can-t-think-of-g...
- The arithmetic here is off: 5% of about 5,000 employees is about 250, not “a hundred or so.”
Wikipedia Jul 3, 2026 at 06:21 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hudal
- Merry del Val was not the Holy Office’s prefect. He was its secretary; the prefecture was reserved to the pope.
Wikipedia Jul 3, 2026 at 06:18 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Touvier
- The relevant prescription date was 1967, not 1966. Sources say Touvier’s death sentences expired in March 1967.
- Chambéry was not under Italian occupation in 1940. It was in Vichy’s unoccupied zone; Italian control in the Alpine area came later, after November 1942.