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  1. Retraction Watch: As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use. “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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/13/retraction-watch-as-a-nonsense-phrase-of-shady-provenance-makes-the-rounds-elsevier-defends-its-use/