The secrets inside us

December 4, 2013

Reactions to their announcement, published in The Journal of Anatomy, cycled quickly from excitement to heated debate and criticism. Had the scientists discovered this ligament, or merely described it? Had they done anything more than confirm what earlier scientists had intimated? How could a ligament possibly have gone unnoticed all this time in any case? Some smelled a conspiracy: Was this just a ruse to create yet another opportunity for unneeded and expensive knee surgeries? (New York Times)