[AndrewC]

He's wrong. They did produce a mutant fly.

If you do not allow people to state things in their own way, yes, he's wrong. But I think people can communicate the message in more ways than you allow. So he can state

they merely showed that a shrimp protein enabled a fruit fly embryo to form leg rudiments where they would have formed normally.

unless you show me the flies with wings and malformed legs. Embryos were mentioned. I don't remember flies.

[VadeRetro]

Embryos were mentioned. I don't remember flies.

If lawyering isn't a fallacy, it should be.