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To: PROLIFE who wrote (759802)	2/27/2007 5:40:04 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"may be they are getting their funding cut, so they have to find something to ward it off." No, you have that backwards. The peer review process turned up questions about the quality of the research done here on 'adult stem cells'. Seems other researchers couldn't replicate the findings. So, the original researcher --- Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota --- reexamined her research in light of the peer comments... and found her own mistakes, and then admitted to them. (As far as I know, no one's 'funding' has been 'cut' over this. Unlike the South Korea situation, this seems to not be a situation where results were deliberately falsified... but one where honest mistakes were made. That's an example of how science polices itself.)