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| Volume 51, Number 3, Summer 2002 |
CORRECTIONSA story reprinted from the Boston Globe (SW, Spring 2002), reporting on the AAAS conference in Boston, contained several errors. The story, a series of short items written by different reporters, failed to credit several reporters: Raja Mishra, Beth Daley, Alice Dembner, and Stephen Smith. In addition, the Globe published two corrections to one of the items, which should have been incorporated into the story. The item transposed the publications in which two papers describing the human genome first appeared. The paper by Celera Genomics appeared in Science, while the paper by the government-funded International Human Genome Project appeared in Nature. The Globe also ran this correction: The item "incorrectly stated that genome researcher J. Craig Venter delivered a speech at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Boston on Saturday. The item also characterized the tone and content of the speech. Venter did not speak. The reporter, one of five Globe staff members at the conference, relied on a second-hand account of an observer who mistakenly identified Venter as the speaker. The reporter's reliance on second-hand information without attribution and without additional verification was inappropriate and in violation of Globe reporting standards." We regret repeating the errors. In the same issue of SW, a story from the Chronicle of Higher Education by Lila Guterman on the topic of conflict of interest disclosure in the book publishing industry was reprinted as an excerpt without authorization. The full-text version of the story can be accessed at http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i22/22a01401.htm. ScienceWriters apologizes to the Chronicle and the author for the unauthorized publication. |