Canadian newspaper accidentally rewrites the entire history of astronomy

On June 21 , the Ottawa Citizen issuedthe following correction , which — if left unamended — would ’ve violently upended the last 500 year of heliocentric thinking . In related news , Nicolaus Copernicus ’ tomb has ad lib combusted in Frombork , Poland . Tiny mushroom-shaped cloud clouds were similarly reported over Johannes Kepler ’s and Galileo Galilei ’s graves in Regensburg , Germany and Florence ’s Basilica of Santa Croce , respectively .

For more shenanigans with newspaper fudge factor , see the occasion The New York Times whiffedthe most important chronological sequence in The Shining .

https://gizmodo.com/the-new-york-times-issues-correction-regarding-the-shin-5882039

[ Dave AkinviaPoynterviaEd Yong ]

AstronomyScience

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