When Craig Bennett of the University of California stuck a dead salmon in his brain scanner to perform a test run on the machine he got something of a shock - the fish's brain and spinal column were showing signs of neural activity.
This has rather put the cat among the neuroscience pigeons. It has pointed up that many, many research findings in the discupline are fatally flawed by poor technique. As a (lapsed) scientist I find this shocking.
Is it any wonder that scientists face not just a sceptical public but a disbelieving one? Climate change anyone?
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