Science versus spin: how Ron Fouchier and other
scientists miscommunicated about the bioengineered bird flu controversy
For a lucid history of the early phase of the GOF H5N1 flu virus see
the story by Peter Sandman, a risk communicator. The contradictions between the
early and late versions of the “Fouchier” experiment by Fouchier himself are
indeed worrying and highly irregular. This is not representative of what
happens in the vast majority of labs.
