Honesty, accuracy, honesty à la Acton are my watchwords.  Why should they be inaccurate?  I mistake nothing, though you and I do not seem to inhabit the same world.  Your faith in science is truly lovely.  As is your reliance upon some kind of nominalism, as I suppose it must be.  

 Did you take Margolis' birthdate away once?  If so, why?  you really should become a "general reader" of The Truth about Realtivism.  Would keep your blood-pressure under control.