31.   So the lab is now making the dispute public in scientific papers and is considering having it aired at large scientific meetings as well.

32.   So it seemed until a recent scientific meeting in Italy when Barnes and his collaborators in Spain, England and at Michigan State University announced their contradictory findings.

33.   Sometimes statistical flaws in reports are not immediately apparent at scientific meetings.

34.   Such talks, in which devices are named and abundantly praised, are unheard of at scientific meetings held by groups like the American Heart Association.

35.   That is one of the central topics at the annual scientific meeting of the American Society for Microbiology held this week in San Francisco.

36.   That team had not signaled its intent to perform one, even at international scientific meetings to discuss hand transplants.

37.   The astronomy group of Michael Feast of South Africa and Robert Catchpole of England made its announcement four months ago at a scientific meeting in London.

38.   The description of their findings is published in the current issue of Science and was first announced at a scientific meeting in May.

39.   The findings became the subject of an extraordinarily bitter medical and public dispute after they were disclosed at a scientific meeting of the American Heart Association in March.

40.   The idea of such a transplant was previously discussed at international scientific meetings, he said, but he does not recall that members of the French group participated.