[DIYbio] Re: " We are not only eating 'materials', we are also eating 'information '"

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Kathryn H <biolartist@gmail.com> wrote:
> Very surprising, particularly since rice is cooked thoroughly before
> eating.
>
> I'm not going to forward this until it's reproduced outside China.
> Their journals have a high retraction rate because researchers are
> pushed to publish stuff that isn't ready for prime time, and reviewers
> aren't picky. Particularly if they want to use this to back up TCM.

This wasn't published in a Chinese journal though, its in Nature...
does Nature have a high retraction rate?

>
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. One paper isn't
> enough.

Interested to see if there are any related papers since/coming

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Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics

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