Tabitha M. Powledge reviews coverage of the "bad luck" cancer paper and places blame on the scientists for using those words: "They introduced the term in the abstract, guaranteeing that 'bad luck' would be part of how the paper was explained to others. The authors defined the term precisely enough, but of course their definition — 'random mutations arising during DNA replication in normal, noncancerous stem cells' — isn’t what the rest of the world means by 'bad luck.'"
January 17, 2015
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