• Pine beetles have swept through 130,000 square kilometres of forest in British Columbia, Canada. Our story was out by a factor of 10 (5 November, p 38).
• The feature “Don’t tell it so straight” (29 October, p 42) mistakenly suggested that the Discovery Institute sought to get biblical creationism taught in science classes, and used the talking point “evolution is just a theory”. These actions should have been attributed more generally to opponents of evolutionary theory.
