On April 17, Deutsche Bank retracted Mr. Tierney's note saying it had appeared because of an editorial mistake.
For example, he thinks the oddly abrupt ending of the oldest version of Mark's Gospel ("…because they [the women at the empty tomb] were afraid") may have been deliberate, not an editorial mistake.
The National Catholic Register removed the interview from its website and posted an apology explaining the publication of Groeschel's "comment was an editorial mistake".
An editorial mistake led to an incorrect author's affiliation in this research paper by Rick Goud and colleagues (BMJ 2009;338:b1440, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b1440).
Hugh Kerr (Labour MEP 1994-99), Edinburgh Mistaken decisions to go to war are more terrible than other mistakes (Editorial, 5 July); except perhaps mistaken decisions not to go to war: Rwanda, 1 million dead; Syria unknown, but awful and not getting any better.
Re "Exposing Medical Mistakes" (editorial, Feb. 24), on President Clinton's proposal for mandatory reporting of serious medical errors and the creation of a federal headquarters to oversee patient safety: The Bell Commission, reacting to the death of Libby Zion in 1984 in New York, tried to define safer working hours and increased supervision for residents.
Nor can we presume that such contradictions are stupid mistakes, editorial oversights or divine typos.
You are wrong to ask John Kerry to admit that his vote to give President Bush Congressional support to invade Iraq was a mistake (editorial, July 30).
"With failure after failure," reflected Teodoro Petkoff of Tal Cual, an anti-Chávez newspaper, in an editorial this week, "the mistake of basing a strategy on the search for 'fast-track' solutions became clear".
