Scientists attacked over claim that 'junk DNA' is vital to life | Science | The Observer

Scientists on the Encode project – an international public consortium researching the human genome – argued that most of our DNA has a part to play.

But this idea is now the subject of an astonishingly vitriolic attack from other scientists, who say that Encode's "absurd" ideas are the work of people who know nothing about evolutionary biology. "News concerning the death of junk DNA has been greatly exaggerated," they insist.