Epileptic spasms of tics and glitches in Krautrock diffractograms
Smut Clyde chases free radicals in a German-run lab in China
Category: Smut Clyde
The Rise of the Papermills
“Is it possible that through no fault of Zintzaras & Ioannidis, their work was incorporated into a papermill template, accruing hundreds of spurious citations?” – Smut Clyde
A rule-based structure of three pigs
Smut Clyde came to check how the Elsevier journal Microprocessors & Microsystems so far handled its “problems caused by dishonest guest editors and reviewers”.
Chen bacon sausage and Chen; Chen egg Chen Chen bacon and Chen…
Smut Clyde chases the ubiquitous multifaced Chen twins.
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“Even university management eventually realised that self-citations of your work, in your own papers, shouldn’t really count (“see ‘Toenail Clipping Microphotographs, Part 1’, S, Clyde 2018″). So people progressed to citation cabals among cronies, referring to each other’s work” – Smut Clyde
Polymer Papermillers Taking the Piss
Papermill Industry enters its Logical Growth Phage. Smut Clyde explains what coordination polymer chemistry has to do with chickenshit.
The Men Who Stare at Ketotic Cows
“The References dwell on bovine indigestion, seizures, and the work of N. Arunkumar.” – Smut Clyde, jazz-punk Klezmer musician.
Elsevier’s Pandemic Profiteering
Aristidis Tsatsakis, Konstantinos Poulas, Ronald Kostoff, Michael Aschner, Demetrios Spandidos, Konstantinos Farsalinos: you will need a disinfecting shower once you read their papers.
Gesundheit! Israeli Scientists treat autism with stem cells
A mysterious clinical trial in Israel is recruiting autistic children for blood draws. As the company’s founder admitted, the actual therapy on offer is extraction of bone marrow “stem cells” and their injection into patient’s spine. Smut Clyde investigates.
Smut Clyde’s Flying Circus
And now for something completely different.
For Better Science 