Trash Be Gone: Why Are Biologists Lashing Out Against Empirically Verified Research Results?

Editor's note: This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on ENCODE that Casey Luskin has been publishing this year in Salvo Magazine. Parts 1, 2, and 3 have already been published there. Part 4 will be published later this year. The prelude can be found here.

Is the vast majority of the human genome useless junk or crucial for cellular function? Scientists are split over this question, with evolutionary biologists principally holding the former viewpoint, and molecular biologists the latter.

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