Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier
Vincent, Dickson, and Rich meant to do an all-email episode, but first they review results of the Blood XMRV Scientific Research Working Group, and partial retraction of the paper associating XMRV with chronic fatigue syndrome.
With this episode TWiV is three years old.
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- Partial retraction (Science)
- Failure to confirm (Science)
- False positive (Science)
- Why a partial retraction? (Retraction Watch)
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- Letters read on TWiV 150
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