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Thursday, 24 January 2013

"Lost in translation"

I read the other day a story in The Independent newspaper about the eminent geneticist, Prof. George Church, who was going to use a  modern human surrogate to bring a Neanderthal  back to life.  I read today that this was entirely untrue and apparently the confusion arose when the interview was translated (or mistranslated) from a German magazine.  It is hard to believe that a scientific interview could have been misinterpreted  so wrongly.

Does anyone know of any more interviews, scientific or otherwise that have been misinterpreted during their translation from a foreign language?
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