Hi all,

for many years, Greg and I and others have been collecting "mea culpas"
on research failures due to computational mistakes -- here's one that
caught my eye the other day:

http://www.unz.com/gnxp/there-was-no-vast-migration-of-eurasians-into-africa/

Reads to me like a workflow system would have helped here...

This is pretty high profile; last paragraph:

If something like this happened to me I???d probably literally throw up. This
is horrible. But then again, this paper made it into Science, and Nature wrote
articles like this: First ancient African genome reveals vast Eurasian
migration. The error has to be corrected.

cheers,
--titus

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