On 20 April 1989 Nature published an article by Dr John Talent accusing "one Indian scientist" of corrupting the palaeontological literature on the Himalayas. Below, that scientist — Professor V. J. Gupta — replies. On pp.13–16 appear four other articles, each of them prompted by the appearance in print of Talent's allegations.
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Jit Gupta, V. The peripatetic fossils: part 2. Nature 341, 11–12 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/341011a0
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