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Weight of evidence of error
MUPHRY’S Law holds, as regular readers may recall, that whenever one criticises editing or proofreading, there will be a fault in what you have written. It appears to have the power to propagate errors to texts adjacent in space and time (29 March). So it is with some trepidation that we turn to Peter Henderson’s report of an item in The Independent, a newspaper, on 22 October, discussing overfishing.
Unsurprisingly to readers of this column, taking…
