Finding that part of the story of Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccine is false, Héloïse Dufour and Sean Carroll explore how science fables are born, spread and die.
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Dufour, H., Carroll, S. History: Great myths die hard. Nature 502, 32–33 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/502032a
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