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Re:Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight by reaperducer on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:58PM (#19424001)
The peak was when Time magazine had 'Herpes: The New Scarlet Letter' on the cover in August 1982

It's was actually "Today's scarlet letter: Herpes."

https://goo.gl/images/hVd6um

Sad when people can't do a simple Google search to verify most easily verifiable claims.

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Re:Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight by g45y45 on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:01PM (#19424028)
Did you update the wikipedia article with the correct citation? Its easy to complain on HN, takes a little more effort to correct misinformation for future internet users.
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Re:Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight by Teever on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:37PM (#19424391)
I've never been able to successfully alter a Wikipedia article, even for something as simple as a typo correction.

Bots always revert my changes within seconds.

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Re:Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight by reaperducer on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:35PM (#19424375)
Did you update the wikipedia article with the correct citation?

Nope. And for reasons I've outlined elsewhere on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19400846

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Re:Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight by soperj on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:26PM (#19424878)
I updated it.
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Re:Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight by andrepd on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:14PM (#19424751)
Why so confrontational? It's a simple mistake, and relatively harmless since the meaning is not at all changed.
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Re:Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight by dwringer on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:16PM (#19424191)
Agreed, but the article itself from that issue is titled "The New Scarlet Letter"[1]. The statement from Wikipedia seems to conflate the cover line with the article itself.

[1] http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1715...

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