ABSTRACT
The error spectrum in publishable research, ranging from slight “undetectable” fl aw to insurmountable foible, is known to exist, but is seldom acknowledged in print unless such an admission is followed by the victorious tale of how the blemish was erased, overcome, or adeptly sidestepped on the way to a research publication. This is not a new tradition; Figure 4.1 contains a 50-year-old tongue-in-cheek research glossary (from metallurgical research) of such sidestepping prose.
