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Last Tuesday's post " Pneumatic, pneumonic, whatever " was based on a New York Post headline announcing that " Trump calls reported pneumatic plague outbreak ‘big problem for Russia’ ". It was implicit in the discussion that the headline writer was ignorant or careless or both.

But yesterday, Bob Ladd pointed out to me that Science magazine committed a similar error in the references to a paper dated 9/25/2026 (Morvai, Boglárka, Kinga G. Tóth, Marianna Boros, Dorottya S. Rácz, Ivaylo Iotchev, Kitti Szabó, and Attila Andics. " Neural evidence that dogs segment the speech they hear with a humanlike consonant bias.…