From a Biologist, Common Sense on That Censored PLOS ONE Paper

Deep-sea biologist Andrew David Thaler comments on the decision by PLOS ONE to retract a peer-reviewed paper on the architecture of the human hand, for the sole reason that it included passing references to the "design" of a "Creator." He thinks "It shouldn't have been" retracted:

Passing peer-review does not mean a paper is perfect. Passing peer-review means that the study being reported is scientifically sound. It would be amazing if everything else about a paper -- the authors' underlying...