James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote:

You just tangled with the wrong guy, Jed.
>
> I was the one who contacted the authors of Nature's cover story on AIDS
> epidemiology (May et al) in 1987 to correct their model -- and guess how I
> knew about the error?
>
> Some grad students at the U of IL had been at the summer seminars held at
> the CDC and the CDC was relying on the erroneous model . . .
>

Gee. Did I say that everyone at the CDC is a perfect genius and they have
never made a mistake? I do not remember saying that.

In my experience, all scientists makes mistakes, because science is hard.

- Jed

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