http://gizmodo.com/science-journal-p...-co-1762677821
Open access science journal PLOS One is once again under scrutiny after a Creationist-minded research paper about the evolution of human hands got through peer review.
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The paper, titled “Biomechanical Characteristics of Hand Coordination in Grasping Activities of Daily Living,” is an examination of the human hand’s remarkable flexibility, dexterity, and coordination. Nothing appears out of the ordinary until the end of the abstract when things dramatically veer off course:
" The explicit functional link indicates that the biomechanical characteristic of tendinous connective architecture between muscles and articulations is the proper design by the Creator to perform a multitude of daily tasks in a comfortable way."
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Regardless, it got through, and now the open source journal is dealing with the predictable shitstorm. The paper’s comments section is full of indignation and requests that the paper be removed, and it has inspired such hashtags as #Creatorgate and #HandofGod.
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Some commentators have come to the journal’s defense, saying that cultural and language differences are to blame. But given the explicitness of the statements in the paper, that’s hard to swallow.
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Sadly, this is just one of several questionable papers to get published in PLOS One. But this journal can hardly be considered the only transgressor in this regard; Science once posted a paper on arsenic life and Nature had one on the memory of water.
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