Originally Posted by
Thermal
Right, but having the clear, yet inaccurate, memory yourself that is shared by so many others makes it a little fascinating. It's one thing to realize you made a mistake in recollection. It's a little eerie when thousands of others remember the same thing.
Yes, that is what it makes it fascinating. If it were just me, I wouldn't give it a moment's thought. If it's a lot of people all claiming the same thing, then it gets a little weird. Nor is it just "going along with the crowd". I distinctly remember thinking "that can't be right!", when I heard it was spelled -stain.
The most parsimonious explanation is some mass failure of memory, maybe based on how the author's name is pronounced. But I wonder what someone like Dmitri Mendeleev would have predicted about the outcome of the double-slit experiment.