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Nature 450, 610 (29 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450610c; Published online 28 November 2007

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Modifying theories is the fabric of scientific progress

Felix E. Schweizer1

  1. Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California 90095-1763, USA

Your News story 'Long-held theory is in danger of losing its nerve' (Nature 449, 124–125; doi:10.1038/449124b 2007) discussed recent technical criticisms of work by Henri Korn, Don Faber and colleagues that was published in the early 1980s.

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