Abstract
It is shown that the standard exposition of the two-slit diffraction experiment is incorrect because it treats the interference as arising from the photon wave function ψ, whereas the interference is really between coherent states of the field, which do not correspond to single-photon states. Several other misconceptions are pointed out.
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