I see your letter obviously had the desired effect, the units are now metric first followed by the conversion.
Mike Payne > On 12 Mar 2015, at 21:06, James <[email protected]> wrote: > > I sent the following mail via an online form page to Purch.com, publishers of > Live Science and kindred "representatives". Of course, I have no hope that > anything will change, but it's a drop in the bucket. They have my email > address and might reply. If they do, I will post it. > > The article I refer to was found on foxnews.com but the Live Science link is > http://www.livescience.com/50104-archaeologists-excavate-bedlam-graveyard.html > > Jim > > Subj: Unit manipulation/Live Science > > Your article "'Bedlam' Graveyard Excavation May Reveal Thousands of > Skeletons" demonstrates a practice of yours that has a negative educational > impact. You usually convert metric units to US Customary even when the > original source used metric units. Those 19.6 feet were 6 meters. And those > 35 cubic feet were 1 cubic meter. Anyone who attended high school after 1960 > knows what a meter is; they have seen and handled meter sticks. Your "dumbing > down" practice is, in effect, a lie to your readers. Please stop being > dishonest. > > -- > James R. Frysinger > 632 Stoney Point Mountain Road > Doyle TN 38559-3030 > > (C) 931.212.0267 > (H) 931.657.3107 > (F) 931.657.3108 >
