Paper Retracted After Anti-Immigrant Scientist Bans Use of His Software (sciencemag.org)

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 12, 2015 @06:14AM from the action-reaction dept.

sciencehabit writes: An 11-year-old research paper describing Treefinder, a computer program used by evolutionary biologists, has been retracted after the program's developer banned its use in European countries he deemed too friendly to refugees. In September, German scientist Gangolf Jobb announced on his website that researchers in eight European countries, including Germany and the United Kingdom, were no longer allowed to use Treefinder, which builds phylogenetic trees from sequence data. The move sparked outrage among some scientists, and now, BMC Evolutionary Biology has pulled the 2004 paper describing the software because the license change 'breaches the journal's editorial policy on software availability.'

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Re:Easy to explain by OhPlz · 2015-11-12 06:28 · Score: 0, Flamebait

What's the point of having a policy and then not following it?
They could treat the policy like some countries are treating their immigration laws.
Re:The strings are his to attach by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-12 06:49 · Score: 0, Flamebait

If you had to live around the Turks in Germany (and send your kids to school with them), you might be more sympathetic to why they're so disliked.