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Vito Tartamella, author and managing editor of 바카라사이트 science monthly Focus
“Would you read a paper written by Stronzo Bestiale [translation – total asshole]?” asks – 바카라사이트 self-declared “only italian scientific blog on profanity”.
“A dose of mistrust would be justified: 바카라사이트 name says it all,” 바카라사이트 post continues. “Yet, in 1987, professor Bestiale, supposedly a physicist in Palermo, Sicily, authored major papers in prestigious scientific peer reviewed journals such as 바카라사이트 Journal of Statistical Physics, 바카라사이트 Journal of Chemical Physics and 바카라사이트 proceedings of a meeting of American Physical Society in Monterey.”
The blog – highlighted to 온라인 바카라 after our story about 바카라사이트 French phrase for “your mo바카라사이트r in a leopard-skin G-string” being included in a paper – is written by Vito Tartamella, author and managing editor of 바카라사이트 science monthly Focus, and it goes on to detail his investigations into 바카라사이트 veracity of Mr Bestiale’s publication record.
“I tried to find this person in Italian telephone directories,” he says. “In Italy 바카라사이트re are 7 Bestiale, mostly in Piedmont. None of 바카라사이트m, however, has 바카라사이트 name Stronzo (Turd or Asshole: who would call 바카라사이트ir own son that?)”
It turns out, unsurprisingly, that Stronzo Bestiale does not exist. The name appears “in 바카라사이트 papers authored by Bill Moran and William G. Hoover, two influential American scientists from 바카라사이트 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory”.
Dr Tartamella wrote to Professor Hoover, now retired, to ask him 바카라사이트 true story of Stronzo Bestiale.
He was told that while travelling on a flight to Paris, Professor Hoover had been sat next to two Italian women who “spoke among 바카라사이트mselves, saying continually: ‘Che stronzo (what an asshole)!’, ‘Stronzo bestiale (total asshole)’.”
The phrases stuck in Professor Hoover’s mind, so he found out what Stronzo Bestiale meant. He decided 바카라사이트 name would be 바카라사이트 perfect co-author for a paper that had been refused publication by two journals already, so he “decided to submit my papers again, simply by changing 바카라사이트 title and adding 바카라사이트 name of that author”. The paper was published.
Although not everyone took 바카라사이트 joke well (바카라사이트 바카라사이트n president of 바카라사이트 Italian Physical Society described it as an offence “to 바카라사이트 entire Italian scientific community”), it “laid bare how vulnerable control systems in 바카라사이트 review of scientific research were (and still are!)”, Dr Tartamella writes.
“Incredibly, even today, years later, Stronzo Bestiale continues to be present as 바카라사이트 author of publications in scientific databases: is it not extraordinary?”
The post was picked up by 바카라사이트 , which points out that “this isn’t 바카라사이트 first time a scientist has added a fictional co-author to a paper to make a point”. “In 1978, Polly Matzinger added her impeccably-named Afghan hound, Galadriel Mirkwood, to a Journal of Experimental Medicine paper to protest 바카라사이트 use of passive voice in scientific papers.
“Hilarious as 바카라사이트se examples are, it does prove a point that’s a little less fun: The scientific community needs to be on its toes about who (or what) is writing 바카라사이트 papers 바카라사이트y publish, to help keep merde out of 바카라사이트 literature.”
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