PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Einar Árnason TI - False facts and false views: coalescent analysis of truncated data AID - 10.1101/006445 DP - 2014 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 006445 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/06/30/006445.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/06/30/006445.full AB - Darwin’s dictum on false facts and false views points the way to opening the road to truth via cogent criticism of the published record. Here I discuss a case in which a truncated dataset (false facts) is used for coalescent analysis of historical demography that reaches a foregone conclusion of a bottleneck of numbers (false views).