November 23, 2001
An Embarrassing Collision of Geopolitics and Genetics; a 'Couture' Magazine on Science
LIKE OIL AND WATER: Science and politics just don't mix. That's the message sent loud and clear by a scientific society and commercial publisher in retracting a paper about the genetic backgrounds of Jews and Palestinians.
Elsevier Science, which publishes Human Immunology, sent a letter to subscribers last month withdrawing an article published in the September issue of the journal. The letter asked readers "to either ignore the article in question ... or, preferably, to
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