#1 Kammerer's name became synonymous with science fraud. But in a fascinating new analysis, biologist Alexander Vargas of the University of Chile reaches a far different conclusion: that Kammerer was in fact the discover of a phenome-non called epigenetics, in which genes are silenced by—and here I'm simplifying, but only a little—experience. "Rather than being a fraud," says Vargas, "Kammerer could be the true discoverer of non-Mendelian, epigenetic inheritance.
An example of why scientists should never dismiss data because it is inconvenient to current theory. Something that is rife in climate science. |