Today on touchdownsblog.ca, Jack Wojcicki issues a fumble to The University of Oslo and The Senckenberg Institute for creating too much hype over a fossil that wasn't that special:

"“We found Missing Link” headlines screamed. Photos of ‘Ida,’ a 47 million year-old primate fossil hit the press and flew across the Internet. Except … remember that part about peer review, testing theories and such? Science can be as competitive as business and the race to be the first to announce something — and the requisite secrecy — is very compelling. But that doesn’t mean you can ‘market your product’ without being sure it is tested. Turns out that Ida isn’t that special, and had those making the announcement checked with their peers they would have known that. “Frankly I’ve got 10 more in my basement,” said Chris Beard, a curator at the Carnegie Museum or Natural History. "

Read the entire post here.