Abstract
“I will not talk about personalities; let me stick to the science,” said Simon Silver of the University of Illinois in Chicago, Ill., during one of the final symposia, “Late-Breaker Abstracts,” held during the 111th ASM General Meeting last May in New Orleans. No one who heard him could doubt that Silver was fuming about both personalities and science as he reviewed and excoriated an online publication from December 2010 purporting to describe a bacterium from Mono Lake in California that uses arsenic instead of phosphorous, including in its DNA, RNA, and proteins.
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