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  • Re: off-topic? but hilarious

    From DB Cates@21:1/5 to erik simpson on Mon Feb 19 11:26:01 2024
    On 2024-02-19 10:22 AM, erik simpson wrote:
    The paper https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390/full

    attracted quite a bit of attention.  The retraction

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2024.1386861/full

    is also pretty funny.  It seems to me the journal itself has a little explaining to do about how such a thing floated by also sorts of review.

    All gone now.
    Just do a search on 'schlong rat' and read the ARS Technica article.
    Also some of the comments, if you get to the one about the rat's upward
    gaze; sweet dreams.
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    --
    Don Cates ("he's a cunning rascal" PN)

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  • From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to erik simpson on Mon Feb 19 18:55:48 2024
    On 2024-02-19 16:22:50 +0000, erik simpson said:

    The paper https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390/full

    attracted quite a bit of attention. The retraction

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2024.1386861/full

    is also pretty funny. It seems to me the journal itself has a little explaining to do about how such a thing floated by also sorts of review.

    If you go to https://forbetterscience.com/ you'll find lots of similar cases.

    Very few current journals are immune to abuse, even ones that were once
    at the pinnacle of respectability, like the Journal of Biological
    Chemistry, have problems now that they've teamed up with Elsevier.


    --
    athel cb : Biochemical Evolution, Garland Science, 2016

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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 19 12:11:29 2024
    On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:26:01 -0600, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by DB Cates <[email protected]>:

    On 2024-02-19 10:22 AM, erik simpson wrote:
    The paper
    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390/full

    attracted quite a bit of attention.� The retraction

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2024.1386861/full

    is also pretty funny.� It seems to me the journal itself has a little
    explaining to do about how such a thing floated by also sorts of review.

    All gone now.
    Just do a search on 'schlong rat' and read the ARS Technica article.
    Also some of the comments, if you get to the one about the rat's upward
    gaze; sweet dreams.

    Since the original leads only to a contentless retraction
    statement, I went to the ARS Technica article you noted to
    see what the hoopla was about. Thanks *ever* so much for the
    reference <gag>. Just curious...who did the original peer
    "review", Larry Flynt? Oh, wait, he's dead. Maybe one of his
    proteges?

    Ain't AI just *wunnerful*? No possibility of abuse at all...

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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  • From *Hemidactylus*@21:1/5 to erik simpson on Tue Feb 20 00:49:05 2024
    erik simpson <[email protected]> wrote:
    The paper https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390/full

    attracted quite a bit of attention. The retraction

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2024.1386861/full

    is also pretty funny. It seems to me the journal itself has a little explaining to do about how such a thing floated by also sorts of review.

    I’ll never unsee the rat with the monstrous exploding boner. Some things
    will stay with you beyond the grave.

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  • From *Hemidactylus*@21:1/5 to DB Cates on Tue Feb 20 00:53:32 2024
    DB Cates <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2024-02-19 10:22 AM, erik simpson wrote:
    The paper
    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390/full

    attracted quite a bit of attention.  The retraction

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2024.1386861/full

    is also pretty funny.  It seems to me the journal itself has a little
    explaining to do about how such a thing floated by also sorts of review.

    All gone now.
    Just do a search on 'schlong rat' and read the ARS Technica article.
    Also some of the comments, if you get to the one about the rat's upward
    gaze; sweet dreams.

    Upward gaze? Ok.

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  • From *Hemidactylus*@21:1/5 to erik simpson on Tue Feb 20 00:52:52 2024
    erik simpson <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2/19/24 9:26 AM, DB Cates wrote:
    On 2024-02-19 10:22 AM, erik simpson wrote:
    The paper
    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390/full

    attracted quite a bit of attention.  The retraction

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2024.1386861/full

    is also pretty funny.  It seems to me the journal itself has a little
    explaining to do about how such a thing floated by also sorts of review. >>>
    All gone now.
    Just do a search on 'schlong rat' and read the ARS Technica article.
    Also some of the comments, if you get to the one about the rat's upward
    gaze; sweet dreams.

    Dreams? Ugh. There's probably going to be more rather than less junk
    like this, and some of it won't be nearly as obvious.

    Junk is the operative word with that one disturbing image!

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