Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Bigwig ushered nonsense paper into top journal, say scientists

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"It makes the extraordinary claim that caterpillars and butterflies have different evolutionary histories - that rather than being a single lineage that evolved through two different life stages, they are a hybrid that resulted from the accidental mating of a flying insect with a worm-like species." One way or another, the peer review / journal publishing process has failed here. What should have happened what that Williamson (author of the paper in dispute) should have published his thoughts and evidence on his website, to be considered by the community as a whole.

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