Set the Controls for the Heart of the Earth
“Herndon’s alternative geoscience is not winning many converts, […] he features here at For Better Science mainly so that when RFK Jr appoints him to the Chemtrail Task Force” – Smut Clyde
Author: smut.clyde
The Trivedi Effect
“Mahendrakumar Trivedi does not need a Potion to make you fatter and more delicious; his psychic emanations are enough.”- Smut Clyde
Crunchy Frog and Cockroach Cluster
“On one side: late-career scientists resorting to purchased promotion of their early-career papers. On the other side: whole new genres of paper-shaped artifacts that are little more than packaging for ever-larger citation cargoes, and papermillers no longer bothering to find buyers for naming rights on their products.” – Smut Clyde
A bit of Frye and Rossignol
“Trapped inside every autist, a normal child with normal cognition is struggling to get out – only needing the right drug or therapy to be released”, – Smut Clyde
The Citation Payola
“The proposition that a niche of citation brokers exists, opens our eyes to other transaction options..” . Smut Clyde
The Dead Geier Sketch, RFK Jr version
“David Geier is the ideal fit to the purposes of RFK Jr. For the only reliably loyal underlings are incompetent ones who know they have no future anywhere else. ” – Smut Clyde
Hear her laughing in earthquake land
“For that marketplace is a labyrinth as large as the academic world, and the Ariadnean thread that traces the path back out of its interior seems to sprout subsidiary threads that lead into plant-based green nanoparticle synthesis or some other side-alley of parascience.” – Smut Clyde
Shake the Stupid Tree and see what falls out
“Does this mean it’s time for an update on the bogus-citation economy? Leonid thought it is, and now you all must suffer for his misdirected priorities. ” – Smut Clyde
Decline and Fall
“Gather round the campfire, everyone, while Uncle Smut regales you with another blood-chilling, spine-curdling tale… this time, about psychologists not sciencing properly.” – Smut Clyde
All you zombies
“Personally I prefer cats to humans because they are little furry psychopaths so we are on the same wavelength.” – Smut Clyde
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