Action or proposition which is inaccurate or incorrect, that could result in failure or deviation from the intended performance or behaviour

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Misreplication of DNA in human fibroblast nucleus

The fallibility of the senses: above, justice, fame and deceit; below, doctors conducting an autopsy on a cadaver, surrounded by onlookers. Engraving, 1692.

Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths / By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick.

Astronomy: the astronomer Sidrophel, using a telescope, misidentifies a kite as a comet. Etching by W. Hogarth, ca. 1721.

Wrong! : a carnival of human error : Friday 5 July, 19.00-23.00 : free event / Wellcome Collection.

Energiea planēs, or, A brief discourse concerning man's natural proneness to, and tenaciousness of errour : whereunto is added some arguments to prove, that that covenant entred with Abraham, Gen. 17.7 is the covenant of grace / J. Whiston.

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Wrong! : a carnival of human error : Friday 5 July, 19.00-23.00 : free event / Wellcome Collection.

Wrong! : a carnival of human error : Friday 5 July, 19.00-23.00 : free event / Wellcome Collection.

Misreplication of DNA in human fibroblast nucleus

Astronomy: the astronomer Sidrophel, using a telescope, misidentifies a kite as a comet. Etching by W. Hogarth, ca. 1721.

Energiea planēs, or, A brief discourse concerning man's natural proneness to, and tenaciousness of errour : whereunto is added some arguments to prove, that that covenant entred with Abraham, Gen. 17.7 is the covenant of grace / J. Whiston.