"At this point, I'll retract our interest in this test site until the process is worked out," he huffed in an email to GoMentum Station's Jack Hall.
Given the "two possible readings," he said, "we do not seek to retract our concession that Michael Fortier was not present for the 'fund-raiser' conversation.
"We [the older generation] can't do much anymore but the reason we speak to you is because we are desperate to retract our failures.
On May 16th, after a day of bitter attacks from Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, and others, many of them accusing Newsweek of having blood on its hands, Whitaker issued this one-sentence statement: "Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Koran abuse at Guantánamo Bay".
The reason given to retract our paper - 'inconclusiveness' - is unprecedented and violates the norms of scientific publishing.
We did not even use the word 'cancer' in our paper although this argument was reiterated in the final letter of the editor-in-chief of FCT when explaining his decision to retract our paper [30].
"We're certainly not retracting our result," says John Kovac, a cosmologist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Cambridge, Massachusettsin Candridge, Massachusetts, and co-leader of the team, which used a specialized telescope at the South Pole known as BICEP2.
We received a letter from the editor-in-chief of FCT, A. Wallace Hayes, asking us to retract our paper on 19 November 2013, more than 1 year after its publication [40].
The decision to retract our paper appears to be result-driven, in that findings of safety in Zhang et al. [25] and Hammond et al. [4] have not been subjected to critical analysis and have been allowed to stand, whereas our findings of risk have been viewed with suspicion and forcibly retracted.
This is either a viral ad for Milka or a riff on Üter Zörker at the Springfield Chocolate Factory but let's retract our marketing antennae for a moment and just revel in the idea: this is video of a quadcopter made of chocolate.
