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Why Eric Lander morphed from science god to punching bag
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2016? "Science can be a blood sport," said science historian and policy expert Robert Cook-Deegan of Duke University. "This seems to be one of those times."
2016? Biologist Michael Eisen of the University of California, Berkeley, deemed his essay "science propaganda at its most repellent" and called for its retraction, while anonymous scientists on the post-publication review site PubPeer ripped into Lander's.
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Those missteps triggered a bitter online war, including the Twitter hashtag #landergate.