As I write this, a scientific field is tearing itself apart on our Web site (see http://the-scientist.com/MRSA). There have been vitriolic personal attacks in the voluminous exchanges of the sort we've unfortunately come to expect. The topic - the regulation of toxin genes in staphylococci - is of both academic and medical interest. The fight is not. It is both simultaneously compulsive and lamentable.
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