Correction.

This document is a correction notice for an article titled "Misinformation in and about science" by Jevin D. West and Carl T. Bergstrom. The authors acknowledge an error in the text regarding the reporting of controversial work on detecting sexual orientation from photographs using artificial intelligence. The correction states that the Wang and Kosinski preprint was posted to the PsyArXiv preprint repository concurrently with the publication of the Guardian article and prior to the publication of the Economist article. The online version of the article has been corrected. The document is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0. [Extracted from the article]