Daily Archives: January 6th, 2009

Center For Science in the Public Interest: Taxonomy FAIL

The “Well Blog” at the New York Times had a post today about insects in food–and made the same, common error that drives me crazy:  getting the classification of the insect used to make Carmine, a pinkish dye, completely wrong. Compounding that error, though, they used this as an illustration:
That photo lead me to the [...]