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Before you go down further and start panicking please make note of what he said, it's really important. usenet and Usenet are two very different things.

Does this mean that MIT will not be publishing anything in Science or Nature? Somehow I don't believe that.

The response to this article highlights one of my biggest problems with a large section of the science community.

The press release is a loud of baloney, like most press releases geared to the non-scientific community. It's a hard job, explaining such complex ideas to people with no background in the field is always going to be challenging and some fluff will need to be introduced. Only other alternative is to not do it at all, and then the creationists win.

However to attack the scientists who actually did the research is simply out of order. Even if they have overstepped the mark, even if what they have discovered is a load of crap, to mock them is simply not necessary.