Re: BBC "documentary"

From: Adrian O Vladutiu (vladutiu@acsu.Buffalo.EDU)
Date: Fri May 31 2002 - 22:26:38 EST


I remember the furor in the medical literature that followed the paper of
Benveniste et al (in Nature). I do not want to criticize the former editor
of Nature (where the article was published after almost 1 year of
revisions and rigorous peer review) but the whole "affair" left a bad
taste. The paper was accepted by Nature but shortly after its publication
a "committee" of scientists, editor and a magician went to the lab to
observe the experiments. The comments of the former Editor of Nature
(mentioned by Howard Shapiro) could have been made without the committee.
I wonder whether it is of value to "open the box" again in this list.
Adrian Vladutiu



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