?Why, punctuation: is; impor,tant!/

:LOLOL That is why I've always told my kids, no matter what their teachers might say, spelling and punctuation count!
 
I'm a technical writer by profession and I hear about many cases of the price of poor documentation. Here's an outrageous example, perhaps the worst I've come across... The Cutter Case:



"Development of the vaccines that eradicated polio from most of the

Western world was funded mainly by the March of Dimes. That charitable

foundation also oversaw the first field trials establishing the safety

and efficacy of Jonas Salk’s vaccine. It then handed the project to the

government, which licensed five private companies to produce the

vaccine. Although the government prescribed exactly how it was to be

manufactured, the instructions were not quite the same as those the

foundation had promulgated prior to the first trial. The Cutter Company,

the smallest of the five licensees, followed the government’s

instructions to the letter, but failed to kill all the virus in the

vaccine. Seventy thousand people suffered mild forms of polio. Two

hundred were paralyzed. Ten died."



http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12201023_1



I hadn't heard of this case till I read this article.
 
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