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A challenger appears
Here at the Riddled Experimental Ethics Laboratory (purveyors of the finest, freshest informed consent), naturally we follow the exploits of Dr Alexander Seifalian. As Chair of the Board of Trustees at...
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Three men in black said, "Don't report this"
Christopher Exley is totally not a crazy person.In addition to aluminating water, why, there are studies underway to aluminate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk...Naturally the authorities...
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Your master he's a monster He will come on a bridge of paper Inscribed with a...
The process of killing mice grows ever more complex, with the People's Laboratory of Drug Targeting & Drug Delivery Systems hard at work on the proverbial better mousetrap. In this murine mortuary...
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Not sure which is worst
1. That someone wrote or otherwise acquired a manuscript about the supposed health benefits of Potato Purple Drank, and went through an article-broker or papermill who set up spoof reviewers to get it...
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I turn on my side which side the left it’s preferable throw the right hand...
All my Hallowe'en party problems are solved with this Sexy Sam-Beckett-Novel costume from Costco!I need only provide my own coal-sack, cord, can-opener, and unbounded quaquagmire of mud and slime to...
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You maniacs! You blew it all up divided by zero!
PubpeerThe collective lidless eye of Pubpeer was recently directed at a vaccines-make-mice-autistic paper at the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry... a paper now on the express train to...
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Watch out for Doctor Dream
Oh look, the newest couple of waste-of-bandwidth waste-of-oxygen OMICS-wannabees to start working the parasite-publisher side of the street have shown up in the mailbox. Their mooching is not 'spam'...
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Why do all these academics keep forcing me to co-author their papers?
Publicity surrounding the recent retraction of a mouse / vaccination study has left authors Shaw and Tomljenovic with a rankling sense of injustice, and they are here to tell the Canadian media who the...
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Polydactyl policies
After 15 hours on Twittle, @FirstCatofNZ has 522807 827 followers. How many of them are Russian Bluebots?
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Twitxtapositions
Elmo is caused by a bacteria. He can be frightening when he seems to spring out of nowhere, but he doesn't actually do that.
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I have a noble cause for skin, there's just too many of them #2 Pigments of...
I programmed the Riddled Ktistec machine to scour the Interweave for exemplars of the type and synthesise them into an updated Mission Statement for the Riddled Research Laboratory and Institute for...
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Due to the authors’ negligence during the preparation of this retraction...
Details here (h/t RetractionWatch) and here (RW again).
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The Pink Knight rises
"A fleeing dairy robber has been stopped in his tracks by a man wearing a pink crop top, tutu, fishnets and fairy wings on a Napier street."There is no doubt an Origin Story to this crime-busting...
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The wonder of the tundra #3: Adventures in the book trade
Wait, what? Five days after the nominal date for arriving on the shelves ($140 reduced 15% to $119), a book remains unavailable from the publisher or the usual on-line sources... but Tundra Books can...
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Always...uh...never...forget to check your references #3
On account of a sheltered though idyllic childhood being taught assassination skills in an apocalyptic death-cult, I was not previously appraised of the existence of the Alzheimers Disease Fund. This...
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The musical genres I listen to are so hard-core, you've probably never heard...
[H/t Leonid Schneider]
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Christmas Ale news NOT
Read "brewing crisis"; was expecting news item about altercations and shenanigans in the malt-based-beverages industry. Ideally, a legal clash between rival brewers both trying to copyright the "pile...
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Journalists far more sympathetic towards Worst US Mass-Murderer Until Next...
No, really.In other news, the local sheriff has incontrovertible conclusive truth that Paddock was crazy, and therefore not a true Scotsman representative of American Heartland Gunlicker Values.
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Another victim of Political Soundness Gone Mad
Libby Weaver bills herself as "Australia's leading nutritional biochemist", and is a "celebrity nutritionist"... this means, more-or-less, that newspappers like the Com-Post (Wellington's Paper of...
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