Friday, December 21, 2018

Fex News


That is not an Easter Egg, Dr Eisen. The resemblance is only partial. You may have been misled by memories of cruel childhood jokes.


Debate continues as to what was actually represented (before a recent correction to remove "unusual aspects") in the first panel of Figure 1 in "Methylation-based enrichment facilitates low-cost, noninvasive genomic scale sequencing of populations from feces".

Journal removes poop drawing with Donald Trump's face — but offers no explanation

Does this correction bring us any closer to understanding how or why the U.S. president's face ended up in a cartoon of baboon poop?
Unfortunately, it does not, because no one's really talking about what happened or didn't happen here, which, you know, is, I would say, par for the course when something goes wrong in science.
I can't see what all the fuss is, or why people are bringing Donald Trump into it, when it's obvious that authors Chiou and Bergey simply intended the image as a homage to Frank Herbert.

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