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Overfishing costing billions, "grolar bears" and "wyotes," headline-grabbing scientific reports are the most likely to be wrong...

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• New hand, same brain map
  Despite the belief that after 35 years the brain’s motor control would atrophy, an amputee victim was offered the ultimate helping hand.
• Publish and be wrong
  The paradox of publishing a paper in a prestigious journal that discusses why papers published in prestigious journals are more often wrong is just one interesting twist of this research.
• The $50-Billion Sunken Treasure
  It’s kind of like finding 50 cents you lost in your couch, except on a really large scale and in the ocean.
• American icons aren’t the animals they used to be
  Grolar Bears and Wyotes are just two examples of increasing hybridization that make the question of conservation far more complicated.
• Must Be Something In The Water
  New research shows increased contamination of tap water; but don’t rush off to buy a boatload of bottled water just yet because, yep, that probably either comes from the same source or is inadequately tested. (More on this topic here) 

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Originally published October 16, 2008