# Guardian apologises for Straight Dope error **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 20, 2002, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardian-apologises-for-straight-dope-error/128755 "2002-09-20T07:26:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardian-apologises-for-straight-dope-error/128755/1 "2002-09-20T07:26:40Z")
Just in case anyone missed it during the hiatus, [The Guardian apologised](http://www.guardian.co.uk/corrections/story/0,3604,793475,00.html) for misrepresenting the Straight Dope - > [@](#): > > In an article headed Were the lunar landings faked?, page 5, G2, September 13, we gave the impression that Straight Dope, an organisation with a reputation for debunking scientific fallacies, had accepted that the moon landings were a hoax. In fact, the Straight Dope article did not support the idea. It totally rejected it. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardian-apologises-for-straight-dope-error/128755/2 "2002-09-20T08:14:51Z")
I’m glad the Straight Dope has such a loyal following that make sure inaccuracies like that doesn’t get made without challenge. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardian-apologises-for-straight-dope-error/128755/3 "2002-09-20T09:51:20Z")
Oh, good, I was just about to organize a lynch mob to run them danged liars outta town. ---
**Author:** ![Hemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Hemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hemlock)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardian-apologises-for-straight-dope-error/128755/4 "2002-09-20T11:16:51Z")
The Guardian (for those who don’t know) is a left-of-center (and some) UK newspaper that has an admirable but embarrassing policy of printing a correction for every misprint or screw-up it publishes. They are clueless about most things, (eg calling the Straight Dope an “organisation”) so they print an awful lot of corrections. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardian-apologises-for-straight-dope-error/128755/5 "2002-09-20T13:55:17Z")
Aaahhh. Sweet satisfaction. But…they didn’t print _my_ letter! ☹ Anybody got some cheese to go with my whine? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardian-apologises-for-straight-dope-error/128755/6 "2002-09-20T13:58:42Z")
They would probably have spelled your name wrong anyway. This is the paper that once reviewed “Doris Godunov”. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardian-apologises-for-straight-dope-error/128755/7 "2002-09-20T23:16:12Z")
BTW, the entire article has been removed from the Guardian website; since the retraction was at the BOTTOM of the article, there was concern that most people wouldn’t bother to read all the way down to the bottom and simply take the article as written. your humble TubaDiva Administrator