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Opinion
Nature 415, 101 (10 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415101b
Lynch mob turns on lynx researchers
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Abstract
Biologists who tried to test the performance of a lab conducting genetic analysis have been unfairly pilloried.
Using hair from a captive lynx as a blind control to test laboratory genetic methods in a wildlife biology project seems like a reasonable procedure. But biologists in the US Pacific Northwest are now being subjected to vehement criticism for doing just that.
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