Peers under pressure : Nature, Nature 413, 102-104 (13 September 2001) | doi:10.1038/35093252
As I mentioned in class today, the high-temperature-superconductivity case in the late 1980s involved a (probably deliberate) typographic error. The article above describes the incident in the context of a general discussion of peer review. The link below provides additional evidence.
[Letter to the editor elaborating on the Y/Yb episode, Nature 414, 393-394 (22 November 2001) | doi:10.1038/35106722]
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For clarification without sifting through the links: The paper read Yb (Ytterbium, 70) instead of Y (Yttrium, 39) until the final stages of publication.
But the article and letter are more interesting.
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