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One of science's saving graces is that a fair number of scientists will publicly admit that they are wrong (and then there's Marc Hauser*...).
And they're doing it open access style.
Jonathan Eisen is the new Academic Editor in Chief at PLoS Biology, and he's kicking it off with this editorial.
It’s been nearly two decades since the last publication of a nationwide survey on the distribution of blacklegged ticks — the primary transmitters of Lyme disease. That survey, released in 1998, reported the tick in 30 percent of U.S. counties.
So what would you call me if I admitted that I used to look for names when I was sequencing the Baculovirus genome?
A less humorous take on the Sarah Palin is "scary" meme.
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