Ryan Gregory points to this open-access critique of the ENCODE Consortium and its much hyped claims to finding that 80% of the human genome is functional.

FORBES: ENCODE Papers Get A Fisking

Birney also identified the elephant in the room: the wording of the claim that the genome is 80% functional.

FORBES: Arguing Over Junk: Scientists Attack Each Other as Media Flub 'DNA Story of the Year'