# How will you manage mistakes in your book?

**URL:** <https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/how-will-you-manage-mistakes-in-your-book/9175>\
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**Created:** [January 5, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/how-will-you-manage-mistakes-in-your-book/9175 "2020-01-05T00:46:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![swamidass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/swamidass/32/3_2.png) [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/how-will-you-manage-mistakes-in-your-book/9175/1 "2020-01-05T00:46:57Z")

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> **[How will you manage mistakes in your book?](https://peacefulscience.org/articles/managing-mistakes/)**
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> As for me, I aim to quickly correct my own mistakes as publicly as I make them. This is one of the demands of science, and what I expect of others.

> As for me, I aim to quickly correct my own mistakes as publicly as I make them. This is one of the demands of science, and what I expect of others.

> 1. **Welcoming correction.** In place of an adversarial approach to identifying errors, we invite anyone and everyone to help us identify and submit errors or mistakes they find in the book. [Please use the form we created for this purpose](https://peacefulscience.org/genealogical-adam-eve/errata/). I am very grateful for your help.
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> 2. **Public and rapid errata**. We will correct errors quickly and publicly, noting them [in an errata document that is freely available and visible to everyone](https://peacefulscience.org/download/errata-genealogical-adam-eve/).
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> 3. **Corrections to the print edition.** These errata are submitted to my publisher, who will correct them in future printings of the book as they deem feasible.
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> 4. **Oversight by others.** Every error report submitted online is visible to several scientists other than me. We have a large network of scholars I will engage with as needed when questions are beyond our expertise.
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> 5. **Transparency.** Where scientific debate is substantial, [we will conduct these debates in public on our forum](https://peacefulscience.org/front-porch/), where any scientist will be invited to join in and the public can watch.
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> 6. **Public explanation where needed.** Particularly significant errors, those that cause severe misunderstanding in public, will be addressed as prominently as possible, for example, with a blog post explaining my error in detail.
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> 7. **Acknowledgement and gratefulness**. Those that point out errors will be acknowledge by name in [the errata document](https://peacefulscience.org/download/errata-genealogical-adam-eve/). I am particularly grateful to those that identify any serious errors, and will acknowledge them specifically for the serious errors they identify.

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**Author:** ![swamidass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/swamidass/32/3_2.png) [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/how-will-you-manage-mistakes-in-your-book/9175/2 "2020-01-05T00:48:50Z")

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**Author:** ![stcordova](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/stcordova/32/2030_2.png) [@stcordova](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/stcordova)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/how-will-you-manage-mistakes-in-your-book/9175/3 "2020-01-06T16:26:31Z")

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Thanks for setting a good personal example for all of us. Congrats again on your book.