statistical disservice: For a bit of background, you may appreciate the Wikipedia article about Carl Wunderlich, but you can also find the 1992 paper that corrects the measurement hosted on [stanfords medical archives]](https://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/epidemiology/documents/HRP236/Parsonnet---Critical-Appraisal-of-98.6F.pdf).
If you're interested in more unit conversion errors, you may enjoy this homework assignment lists a few famous mistakes from NASA. But there are many anekdotes online of these kinds of mistakes. Most of them seem related to metric translation errors.