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Prejudice in science – Lessons from the coronavirus story
Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics
Vol. 75p83–84Published online: June 10, 2020
- Kwan Hoong Ng
- Eva Bezak
Cited in Scopus: 1
In the current pandemic times, medical physicists may not be aware that there is an interesting story on two significant discoveries related to the coronavirus. One is the invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the other is the first electron microscopic observation and identification of the coronavirus. Both of them were disregarded by the reviewers and major journals declined to publish these discoveries. These days, PCR, for example, is a widespread method for analyzing DNA, having a profound effect on healthcare, especially now during the Covid-19 pandemic.