In the Christmas issue of The BMJ, recently out, you can read about my exploration of nonexistent authors listed in citations in PubMed, a never ending source of general amusement in the form of misattributions and misspellings. I reported three varieties: apparent authors (such as Et Al and Anon), concealing the identities of real contributors; […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Alpha, beta, gamma . . . zeta
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