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...conclusions before publication; once published, other research groups repeat or analyze the data in more depth to further ensure that they are legitimate. The results of the AIDS-vaccine trial did not benefit from either leg of this process. The investigators chose instead to announce the results in a press conference in Thailand, at the request of the Thai government, which wanted to inform its citizens of the positive findings as soon as possible. A U.S. press conference, including the U.S. Army researchers and Fauci, was held several hours later, with a promise to follow up with more detailed data...
...confound matters further, after the Thai press conference, a select number of scientists received confidential data on the study. After reviewing the numbers, some of them discussed their concerns over the discordant statistics with journalists at Science magazine's Science Insider blog and the Wall Street Journal...
Correction: The original version of this article misstated that some AIDS researchers received confidential data prior to the Thai press conference in September; they received the data after. The article also misstated that these researchers published their concerns on the website of the journal Science; in fact they gave interviews to a Science reporter. Clarification: The original article did not elucidate the particular conditions under which researchers would analyze a smaller subset of clinical trial data, rather than the complete, original set; those details have been incorporated in the text...
...Vintage Press announced last Tuesday that “Nightlight,” the Lampoon’s parody of the first book of the “Twilight” series, will be distributed to major bookstores around the country, making it the 133-year old organization’s first published book parody in 40 years...
...This demonstrates that we’re halfway home, and remarkably we got halfway home with just one chemical,” said Kevin Eggan, assistant professor in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and another senior author on the paper, in a press release announcing the paper...