touchscreens

On a recent trip to DC, I watched with fascination as the high schoolers sitting next to me on my JetBlue flight attempted to control the individual TVs in the seat backs in front of them.  Both boys reached up and started touching the screen - tapping, dragging, trying increasingly elaborate gestures on the screen [...]

I was thinking about the thing where The Scientist (register to see) blogged that Merck payed Elsevier publish a fake journal, and I was wondering what the two companies were saying about it.
Tidbits:
* Merck claims no foul play