{"id":1653,"date":"2014-04-29T18:59:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T22:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/2014\/04\/29\/blinded-by-scientific-gobbledygook\/"},"modified":"2018-11-11T21:18:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T02:18:33","slug":"blinded-by-scientific-gobbledygook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Blinded by scientific gobbledygook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I wrote the whole paper that way, copying and pasting from soil, then blood, then soil again, and so on. There are a couple of graphs from a paper about Mars. They had squiggly lines and looked cool, so I threw them in.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The university where I claim to work doesn\u2019t exist. Nor do the Nepean Desert or my co-author. Software that catches plagiarism identified 67 per cent of my paper as stolen (and that\u2019s missing some). And geology and blood work don\u2019t mix, even with my invention of seismic platelets.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;First came the Merit Research Journal of Agricultural Science and Soil Sciences, which claims it sent me to \u201cpeer review\u201d by an independent expert in the field who gave me a glowing review. It laid out my article and was ready to post it online 48 hours after submission \u2014 for $500.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/technology\/Blinded+scientific+gobbledygook\/9757736\/story.html\">Blinded by scientific gobbledygook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/technology\/Blinded+scientific+gobbledygook\/9757736\/story.html\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Import\u00e9 de <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104239776541827516598\/posts\/8JV7odU8EuL\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I wrote the whole paper that way, copying and pasting from soil, then blood, then soil again, and so on. There are a couple of graphs from a paper about Mars. They had squiggly lines and looked cool, so I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=1653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}