I may be missing something here, but I don't think you have to rebut
anything.  You simply report that someone else has rebutted it.  Along the
lines of

Many scientists regard this published structure as unreliable since a
misconduct investigation by the University of Alabama at Birmingham has
concluded that it
was, "more likely than not", faked [1]

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091222/full/462970a.html






On 15 May 2014 18:00, Nat Echols <nathaniel.ech...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Patrick Shaw Stewart <
> patr...@douglas.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> It seems to me that the Wikipedia mechanism works wonderfully well.  One
>> rule is that you can't make assertions yourself, only report pre-existing
>> material that is attributable to a "reliable published source".
>>
>
> This rule would be a little problematic for annotating the PDB.  It
> requires a significant amount of effort to publish a peer-reviewed article
> or even just a letter to the editor, and none of us are being paid to write
> rebuttals to dodgy structures.
>
> -Nat
>



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