John Timmer writes at Ars Technica that press reports of last week's ENCODE research update "painted an entirely fictitious history of biology's past, along with a misleading picture of its present. As a result, the public that relied on those press reports now has a completely mistaken view of our current state of knowledge." Timmer speads blame far and wide, assigning shares to reporters, press officers, journals, and even some of the project's scientists.
September 11, 2012