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speaking as some one who has published books and articles for the non-scientific community as well as for the scientific community, editors do things that you have no control over or catch unaware until you read the printed item. i had a book chapter in which an editor completely changed DTPA (1,1,4,7,7-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid) to DPTA, a grad student of mine had a paper published in which an editor completely misspelled poinsettia changing it to pointsettia - even after she corrected the galleys the editor changed it to the incorrect spelling. its difficult enough to write a book even more so when there are people correcting things they no nothing about and not telling you they did. and for Koeppel, to try and write a book for the non-scientific reader when he has been given scientific info is even harder - i have a difficult time writing for the non-scientific reader i can only imagine how it was for him.