AnthonySpeaking of widespread low-quality scientific publication and the need to take care with words: <a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/</a><br><blockquote>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 journals when a Russian chemist and scientific sleuth noticed the odd wording in a now-retracted paper in Springer Nature’s Environmental Science and Pollution Research.<br><br>Today, a Google Scholar search turns up nearly two dozen articles that refer to “vegetative electron microscopy” or “vegetative electron microscope,” including a paper from 2024 whose senior author is an editor at Elsevier, Retraction Watch has learned. The publisher told us it was “content” with the wording.<br></blockquote>Note the presence of Nature publishing group, notorious lately for their low-quality AI slop or AI-boosterism, and Elsevier, who is generally terrible.<br><br><a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=aislop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AISlop</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=informationoilspill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InformationOilSpill</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=academicpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicPublishing</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=scientificpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScientificPublishing</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=papermill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaperMill</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=peerreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeerReview</a><br>