Girl Goes, or the Rockin' Science Blog Is More Powerful Than the Stodgy Letter to the Editor
As demonstrated by grad student Abbie Smith at her ERV blog.
Smith's post heard 'round the Web—which is a major, career-devasting bust to researcher Judy Mikovits—shows how Mikovits clearly used the same Western blot data to describe two different experiments, both of which made the now highly dubious link between XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Although Smith acknowledges that she was not the first to recognize the identical nature of Mikovits's Western blot images (one of which was published in Science in 2009 and the other of which was presented at a recent conference in Ottawa), she should get credit for the worldwide disclosure.
Snap.
Smith's post heard 'round the Web—which is a major, career-devasting bust to researcher Judy Mikovits—shows how Mikovits clearly used the same Western blot data to describe two different experiments, both of which made the now highly dubious link between XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Although Smith acknowledges that she was not the first to recognize the identical nature of Mikovits's Western blot images (one of which was published in Science in 2009 and the other of which was presented at a recent conference in Ottawa), she should get credit for the worldwide disclosure.
Snap.
