Is there anything you disagree with? Or do you simply dislike the conclusion? Five million euro of tax payer money have been blown on a Neanderthal genome. A

Is there anything you disagree with? Or do you simply dislike the conclusion? Five million euro of tax payer money have been blown on a Neanderthal genome. All we got out of it is a hyper sensitive analysis that picked up an artifact (source: first hand experience with the raw data) and called it admixture. But it's a high profile publication thanks to the catchy headline and more tax payer money flows in the same direction. This wouldn't have happened if the bureaucrats who presided over the grant money knew anything about the science and looked into the methods. Or maybe it would have happened anyway, because this was never science but just a publicity stunt. Either way, funding "science" this way is bad.