It's really sad that much of the public get their scientific beliefs from misleading press releases that lead to utterly incorrect headlines and articles like t

It's really sad that much of the public get their scientific beliefs from misleading press releases that lead to utterly incorrect headlines and articles like this, and the ENCODE consortium should be ashamed of themselves. They've done lots of damage that many other scientists will have to spend time and effort to correct. splatterdash posted a link to an excellent summary of the problems in this thread, and I'd add a couple more links: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1172 http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1172 and http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfarrell/2012/09/07/reports-of-junk-dnas-demise-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfarrell/2012/09/07/reports-o...