AT A time when the Hutton enquiry into the death of British government scientist David Kelly is very much in the public eye, Feedback was intrigued to be reminded that Kelly co-wrote a letter about anthrax that was published in Â鶹´«Ã½ back in 1986.
What’s more, reader Adrian Smith informs us that the letter is now on an Institute for Scientific Information database, so it’s officially part of the great web of citations that is science. Unfortunately, because of a confusion over the last words of the published letter, which, like the names of the authors, are in italics, the ISI lists the lead author…
