rfwebster (@rfwebster.net)

I've definitely been guilty of a bit of vegetative electron microscopy, those late night elemental maps on an old LaB6 'scope definitely warranted a few naps between drift correction stage bumps. Not sure if I'd brag about them in the method section though. retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/v...

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As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j… https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/