[MIM intends to ask Noam Chomsky, Maria Mies, Richard Levin, Richard Lewontin, Carol Andreas, and any other experts in the mass media, population or epidemiology studies or China to sign this petition. Specifically, we seek tenured professors, media professionals and student organizations to sign this petition to Harvard University Press. Please send your willingness to sign to mim3@mim.org or MIM, PO Box 29670, Los Angeles, CA 90029-0670. We would also accept and publish other statements in favor of correcting the book.]
"We the undersigned demand that Harvard University Press correct the misplacement of decimal places that occurred in its book "The Black Book of Communism" through the publication of an erratum. The errors in Harvard University Press's book overstate the violence that happened under communism by a factor of 10. Since reviews of the book have been in all the major media outlets and all over the Internet, it is a pressing matter of the historical record to correct these mistakes and ensure a higher level of quantitative literacy for the future."
See MIM's letters to Harvard University Press and its response
See MIM's review of the Black Book of Communism from February 2000 See all the links in this matter in chronological order Read another example of the epidemic of misplaced decimal points on the Great Leap: Harvard Government Chair Roderick MacFarquhar
Contact MIM by writing mim3@mim.org