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thundara  ·  2863 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Electrorheology leads to healthier and tastier chocolate

    It's PNAS. The open secret about PNAS is that they often publish pure shit, since members of the academy get freebies all the time.

Not saying anything on the quality of the paper, but you can tell if it was an in-network / ol' boys submission vs. standard peer-reviewed submission by "Contributed" vs. "Direct" submission. This one is the latter:

    This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.




b_b  ·  2863 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Did not know that. Thanks for the tip!