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Finding that part of the story of Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccine is false, Héloïse Dufour and Sean Carroll explore how science fables are born, spread and die. Access through your
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AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Héloïse D. Dufour and Sean B. Carroll are at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1525 Linden Drive, Madison,
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