A very late retraction

There is an amazing letter in the current issue of American Scientist (see it here) in which the writer retracts passages from an article of his which the magazine published over 50 years ago in 1955.

Wow! I am going to star this thread so I can find that again, for the next time this issue comes up.

P.Z. Myers blogged about this (and commenters commented) a couple of weeks ago: Scholarly integrity

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Oops, I missed that - I'm normally a fan of Pharyngula, though the naive politics gets tedious at times.