August 30, 2024 article in The Wall Street Journal.
A flawed study attracted grants, investments and other researchers who based new work on the faulty findings.
“Salzberg, the computational biologist, and a team analyzed a handful of the cancer types and didn’t find most of the bacteria reported in the Nature study. Their analysis, published in October 2023 in the journal mBio, stated that the ‘near-perfect association between microbes and cancer types reported in the study is, simply put, a fiction.’“
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