I just got around to giving a first-pass read to the third item in the list
below, and realized that it was a good example of what I was talking about
in my prior post in this thread. It shows how (and where) "Real scientists
[who] expect to be challenged at every turn" both challenge and rebut
challenges.  

You don't need to sweat the details, just trust that "false priming events
during reverse transcription" can happen, and have happened before.  Note
the tone of both the Critique and the Reply.

In the "discussion" below, I haven't yet finished slogging through the
"Response", but my money is on Judy Chen.  She was one of Mark Feldlaufer's
last hires before he left the Bee Lab to work on Invasive Insects with a
real budget with which to do research (my view, not Mark's).  She's done
some excellent and groundbreaking work, such as isolating individual viruses
in  individual varroa mites.

Paper:
http://mbio.asm.org/content/5/1/e00898-13.full
"Systemic Spread and Propagation of a Plant-Pathogenic Virus in European
Honeybees, Apis mellifera"
By Judy Chen (USDA), et al

Critique:
http://mbio.asm.org/content/5/3/e00985-14.full
"Conclusive Evidence of Replication of a Plant Virus in Honeybees Is
Lacking"
Allen Miller (Iowa State), et al

Response:
http://mbio.asm.org/content/5/3/e01250-14.full
"Reply to 'Conclusive Evidence of Replication of a Plant Virus in Honeybees
Is Lacking'"
By Judy Chen (USDA), et al

             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html