From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:16:49 +0100

No, no joke. And here are the records in PubMed and PMC.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18941623

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2565068/

PLoS ONE was alerted to the problem some time ago.


Richard



From: Pippa Smart <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:37:39 +0000

Is this a joke article?

Pippa

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On 18 February 2013 20:52, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:15:45 +0100
>
> Joe,
>
> You might want to read the abstract to this paper:
>
> http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.000
> 3455
>
> Richard Poynder