Dat it is john. BTW Here's a update from Dr. Ketchum march 31, 2012
I want to remind everyone that is getting a little too anxious that when submitting a manuscript, you have to give the peer reviewers every minute detail that they ask for or you take the chance of the manuscript being delayed or rejected because you didn't do what they asked you to do. Sometimes it is a lot more data/revisions and sometimes not. They can send it back with requests multiple times also. As I said, I (as a peer reviewer also) sent one back recently 4 times (2 major revisions and two minor ones) It took months on the first two and then a couple of weeks on the next two revisions and just finally was approved for publication after the original submission last year. One thing is for sure, if they had not revised it per the reviewers' instructions, it would not have been published and this paper had 10 or so PhDs on it. What we have done is not simple, even with a number of authors. It has taken a lot of teamwork, conference calls and innovation. I still repeat, it will come out and the science is good and sound with lots of overkill for the sake of the peer reviewers and all the skeptics out there. The time it takes to complete revisions and requests for revisions are out of our control though.
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