Listening to Richard Fortey on mushrooms at southwold literary festival

@MRCClimb meeting on microbial genomics and bioinformatics in the 2030s in Tenerife

@markowenmartin @naturepoker1 @newscientist Agree with all being said here. Popsci writing in books & magazines important for public appreciation of science but often wrong and no way to bring errors to wider attention. No equivalent of letters to the editor. @newscientist spouting rubbish on non existent brain microbiome

@newscientist @FlintDibble @newscientist peddles the idea that we overlooked an extraordinary brain microbiome. I have to tried to explain why they are wrong while real microbiology is more exciting but they aren’t listening.

Web based version here. Video abstract well worth a look. Says it all!

@newscientist @FlintDibble When are you and @d_a_robson going to accept that your brain microbiome article has equivalent status to this TV show? I.e simply untrue? Shame on you for peddling nonsense.

@jimalkhalili @theAliceRoberts @newscientist @d_a_robson Have cancelled my subscription

@MithuStoroni @d_a_robson Have you looked at his claims on the brain microbiome? Do you agree with them?

@MicrobiomDigest @PLOSONE @SmutClyde Can you get @d_a_robson and @newscientist to retract their brain micro biome nonsense?

x for some reason restricting my ability to directly respond to your tweet. So much for freedom of speech. But the claims they make are not controversial just plain wrong.

@AsafLevyHUJI @phylogenomics Sadly current thinking on most sides favours 😔

@markowenmartin @newscientist @Nature @BioMickWatson @phylogenomics @MicrobiomDigest @JulianParkhill Must also give a shout out for this ten year old citation classic Sets the null hypothesis in all such cases.

@markowenmartin @newscientist @Nature @BioMickWatson @phylogenomics @MicrobiomDigest @JulianParkhill Ironically @newscientist can engage in critical thinking when it wants to.

@markowenmartin @d_a_robson @newscientist @Nature @BioMickWatson @phylogenomics @MicrobiomDigest @JulianParkhill A few links that might interest your student on the nature of evidence

@d_a_robson @newscientist @Nature I would ask others to look at the original @newscientist article and and post their own comments. This is not a social media scrum but online peer review. @BioMickWatson @phylogenomics @MicrobiomDigest @JulianParkhill