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It is precisely because I know that this is Jay Labinger's view that I was surprised to find, in this conversation about science studies of which he is an editor, what seemed to be easily corrected misreadings of one participant by another. These misreadings made those who committed them talk past, rather than to, those whom they misread by causing them to respond to statements that had not been made instead of to ones that had. Nevertheless, contrary to what Labinger infers from a remark that he quotes from my review, I do not believe that, in a case of this kind, God wants the editor to suggest, much less request, that his authors correct what he believes to be misreadings. My thought was rather that if a response by one author to another seemed as if it might rest on a misreading, then God might want the editor to call this to the attention of the respondent.