Leonard Pinth-Garnell Meets Merriam and Webster

Zapperz reports on the Bad Glossary of Particle Physics Terms

The sad thing in all of this is not that they got it wrong. I would not expect a reporter to get all of this correct. The sad part is that (i) no one bothers to fact-check them and (ii) they don’t have a expert staff or a physicist on call to give this a quick glance. How difficult can it be? It just shows a total lack of respect for this area of reporting.