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From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: Re: Strange results in Nature article
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Date: 24 Jul 88 03:20:06 GMT
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Dan Davison (dd@beta.lanl.gov) writes:
|In article <10465@lll-winken.llnl.gov>, colvin@mahler.llnl.gov (Mike Colvin) writes:
|> 	Has anyone read in the newsgroup read the article: "Human basophil
|> degranulation triggered by very dilute antiserum against IgE" in
|> the June 30 Nature on page 816?  It's also discussed in an editorial
|> entitled "When to Believe the Unbelievable" on page 787 of the same issue.
|>   [much description deleted] 
|> 	Anyway, I just wanted to point out this truly bizarre article and
|> would like to hear what other people have to say about it.
|
|I've been surprised by the lack of comment on the article in this
|newsgroup.  I had to read the thing over 5 times before being
|comfortable with it.  The extensive testing and reproducibiliy
|help a lot.

Forgive my ignorance, but could someone give a quick summary of what the
first paragraph above means?  The whole discussion sounds interesting,
but I don't know enough about biology or chemistry to understand why
everyone's up in arms.

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