[vNGiDaFX]

Huh?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010...rology-journal

Here's a scientific rowback for the ages.

Only weeks after publishing a piece that speculated on a biblical account of a feverish woman cured of influenza by Jesus, the editor of Virology Journal has retracted the paper and apologized for ever running it.

A bunch of folks noticed this flap before we did, including Dr. Ivan Oransky, who moonlights from his day job as executive editor at Reuters Health as a blogger for Retraction Watch.

Here's what happened. A commenter on the journal article questioned the paper, based on passages from the New Testament, saying "it is unclear how this case report meets any of the normal standards of a scientific article or the minimal standards of any journal other than someone actually paid to have it published."

The journal's top editor, Tulane's Dr. Robert Garry, first defended the paper, saying in a comment that it had been read and reviewed by two experts before publication.

But then Garry apparently had second thoughts... Here's the article from Virology: http://www.virologyj.com/content/7/1/169

[Dilangos]

What a lot of rubbish. Hey, Virology Journal, are you wishy washy all of the time or just over this article?


I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the influenza did exist 2000 years ago. I think it's good that this article got published.