Nature publishes the deeply flawed "Black Death selection paper" in Oct 2022.
A preprint refuting it is uploaded to bioRxiv Mar 2023.
Now, 2 years later(!), Nature finally publishes the preprint as "matters arising".
Number of accesses on the original paper since: 200k. Number of cites: 173. 1/2
A preprint refuting it is uploaded to bioRxiv Mar 2023.
Now, 2 years later(!), Nature finally publishes the preprint as "matters arising".
Number of accesses on the original paper since: 200k. Number of cites: 173. 1/2
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And it will probably continue to get naively cited by authors outside ancient DNA, many of whom will never learn about the rebuttal: 2/2