Little Creatures
“The entire proposition is crazier than a barrel-full of rabid wolverines that have spent a week self-medicating with bath-salts and angel dust. Yet there is this burgeoning literature on mitochondrial transplants!” – Smut Clyde
Author: smut.clyde
We don’t need no education, We don’t need no thought control
“Of course the sentient rubber-stamps guest-editing Special Issues on behalf of papermills would have accepted anything – they don’t give two tugs on a dead dingo’s dick about content ” – Smut Clyde
Stephenson’s Alternative Universes
“Stephenson […]. wants his Scientist persona to be not only a renowned computer scientist and quantum theoretician, but also a neurosurgeon. Possibly a test pilot and rock star too.” – Smut Clyde
Carlo Croce: from fake science to fake art
“The sockpuppets went on to argue that Croce’s fake results had been vindicated by subsequent replications, making him guilty of nothing more than excessive zeal in the cause of righteousness. ” – Smut Clyde
Bosone Layer
“[Taurine’s] exact biological role is unclear, which is why Parames Sil and his students decided that it must be an antioxidant, and therefore the ideal treatment for cadmium- or arsenic-poisoning.” – Smut Clyde
Synthetic Communications with Ali Fakhri and his real or imaginary friends
“the entire dramatis personae seem to have crawled out of our man’s sock drawer, and the page-count of Synthetic Communications would be grievously impoverished without his contributions, whether direct or uncredited.”- Smut Clyde
Stop trying to make VSEL happen!
“…the best evidence for the existence of VSELs is the dismal failure of all the other much-vaunted stem-cell therapies to deliver on their promises. Since it is axiomatic that some stem-cell therapy must work, the successful cell-types must be the ones that haven’t been tried yet, which leaves VSELs.”- Smut Clyde
Ash Ra Template
“There is another possibility, though… that C.-C. Sun is the papermill, supplying colleagues around Wuhan with variants of the same paper, with the condition that those donated manuscripts carry self-citation payloads.” – Smut Clyde
Ticket to Tianjin
“So here is a novelty in the annals of fictional research: a nomadic digital caliper. It visited a series of laboratories, accompanied by a backing troupe of mouse-mined xenograft tumours for it to measure” – Smut Clyde
In Memoriam: Professor Laurentiu “Telocyte” Popescu (1944-2015)
“The idea to call the newly discovered cells telocytes came to me during a break at the Vienna State Opera” – Don Lorenzo aka Preda
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