I sent the body of this email text to Feedback at AAAS before posting it
to USMA. I also sent a longer note to the author of the cited article
prior to that posting. That author sent an email back to me today, saying:
"Thanks for the note, James. I'll forward to the copyeditors and see
what can be done."
Sometimes they listen.
Jim
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On 2014-05-13 21:40, James wrote:
How can we expect the general public to get units of measurement correct
when a staff writer at the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) makes an error on a very common quantity?
See
http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2014/05/scienceshot-electric-stimulation-could-help-you-control-your-dreams?utm_content=buffer31659&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
where the staff writer said "People who had received 40 Hz of current...".
Jim Frysinger
