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Science 18 August 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5482, p. 1139
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5482.1139a
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Continuing concerns about the rigor of research on ancient DNA and that "high-profile journals continue to publish studies that do not meet the necessary controls" prompt a list summarizing "criteria of authenticity" required for work published in this area. The role of the polio vaccination program carried out in Central Africa in the late 1950s in the origin of HIV and AIDS (as posited in the book The River) is hotly debated. And "the myth...that efficient use of nuclear resources is a proliferation threat" is challenged, and it is suggested that "electricity produced from existing nuclear by-products would be equivalent to that needed by the United States, at present use rates, for hundreds of years."

Letters in This Issue

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[Letter] Ancient DNA: Do It Right or Not at All
Alan Cooper and Hendrik N. Poinar
[Letter] Safety for the Origin of HIV and AIDS
Edward Hooper. Responses B. Korber, T. Bhattacharya, J. Theiler, R. Gupta, A. Lapedes, B. Hahn, F. Gao, M. Muldoon, S. Wolinsky; Stanley A. Plotkin and Kilary Koprowski
[Letter] Nuclear Power and Climate without Proliferation
Clinton Bastin
[Letter] Retraction
Robert B. Tracy, Chih-Lin Hsieh, Michael R. Lieber
[Letter] Corrections and Clarifications


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