Scientists Retract Report on Predicting Longevity

[markmc20001]

Scientists who asserted last year that they could predict with 77 percent accuracy who would live past 100 have retracted their report in the journal Science, yet say they are right anyway.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/science/23retract.html

Looks like some scientists were persuaded to retract an article in Science......

 

[biophile]

A paper on genetic variants correlating with longevity gets retracted for using a "faulty chip" in only 10% of the centenarian samples tested, yet the PACE trial riddled with demonstrable flaws and weaknesses gets praised by the journal's editors and other medico-politicians for its alleged "robust" and "well-designed" methodology while the critics get branded as emotional and irrational for explaining these flaws.