No newspaper columnist would expect to claim that ‘spiders are insects’ or that ‘Mars is a star’ without attracting a regular deluge of indignant correspondence. Yet even our most respected publications can state that typhoid is caused ‘by a virus’ and emerge unscathed. Brian Ford comments.
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Ford, B. Microscopic blind spots. Nature 258, 469 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258469a0
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