As he told me, however, accuracy was not his primary concern.
Bird points out that "we don't say clunge" (The Inbetweeners' memorable term for the female genitals) but all admit that historical accuracy was not their top priority.
As he points out in an afterword, he has made it all up: almost nothing in "The Racketeer" is based on fact and "accuracy was not deemed crucial".
The park's claim that orcas, when properly conditioned, exhibit behavior that can be predicted with more than 98 percent accuracy was not based on science, he said.
But there are countless examples of manipulation of facts, particularly in the chronology of the novels, which show that for Zola documentary accuracy was not paramount.
It said the white paper Scotland's Future, which was widely criticised when Salmond published it in November 2013 for its lack of candour and accuracy, was not well-enough controlled by the civil service in Edinburgh.
Speaking from a tour stop in Germany, he noted that while some of his band mates were schooled in Eastern European music, he was not, and in any case stylistic accuracy was not the point.
Coding accuracy was not controlled specifically for the study.
The location accuracy was not so high as expected.
Quantitative accuracy was not a consideration during this early optimization phase.
Nevertheless, Eurolight could not undertake diagnostic validation in each of the translations used, so diagnostic accuracy was not directly assessed.
