Exactly my line of thinking ...

Thanks Garth. You should go to the link on the note (not obvious that there would be anything there, but there is a whole blog post about this issue). I started looking around and discovered the ASM award. I then compiled a list of all the awardees including links to their articles when possible.

See http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/plosone-paper-keywords-revealing-penis.html for a discussion of why the connection between this study and HIV is weak and see how the lead scientist of the study is working to get the press release changed to be more accurate