From adam Sat Mar 11 10:50:24 1995 Subject: A journal publication means nothing. Cc: adam, asr4u@server.cs.virginia.edu, bcaton@sas.upenn.edu, berna, dobbin@tma.com, jncook@ucdavis.edu, john-t, paolo, rajit, robert, schooler From: brian6@vaxb.mdx.ac.uk (From the moment you step on a natterjack toad it fills your belly with a feeling of disgust ! Grind the enemy...) Newsgroups: uk.misc Subject: Re: Vegetarianism Date: 11 Mar 1995 12:23:46 GMT Message-ID: <3js4oi$t19@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk> In response to those people here who think that a scientist is nothing unless he's produced endless articles for the journals, I'd like to present some examples of just what the journals are actually made up of. Fortunately, some people have better stuff to do with their time. Research reports that merit a trip to the library: "Immunological and Behavioral Effects of Fragrance in Mice," by Hideki Shibata, Ryoichi Fujiwara, Mitsunori Iwamoto, Harue Matsuoka and M. Mitsuo Yokoyama, International Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 57, nos. 1-2, 1991. (Thanks to Barry Duggan for bringing this to our attention.) "Reassociation of Dreams. IV. A Second LSD Analysis of the Beetle Bug Dream: Its Relation to a Shark Dream and Fear of Lesbianism," by H. A. Abramson, Journal of Asthma Research, vol. 15, no. 1, 1977, pp. 23-62. (Thanks to Thomas Ryan for bringing this to our attention.) "Metal Detectors: An Alternative Approach to the Evaluation of Coin Ingestions in Children?" by S. P. Ros and F. Cetta, "Pediatric Emergency Care," vol. 8, no. 3, June, 1992, pp. 134-136. (Thanks to Janet Pensig for bringing this to our attention.) "No-Scalpel Vasectomy at the King's Birthday Vasectomy Festival," by Apichart Nirapathpongporn, Douglas H. Huber and John N. Krieger, "The Lancet," no. 335, 1990, pp. 894-895. The festival took place, appropriately, in Bangkok. (Thanks to Frank Walker for bringing this to our attention.) "Fatalities Attributed to Entering Manure Waste Pits," (unsigned), Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, vol. 42, no. 17, May 7, 1993, pp. 325-329. (Thanks to Mack Barham for bringing this to our attention.) "Object-Oriented Retrieval System for the Johns Hopkins Autopsy Database," by G. W. Moore, G. M. Hutchins, and J. J. Berman, Medinfo 92 [Conference proceedings]. (Thanks to Michael Power for bringing this to our attention.) "Injuries due to Falling Coconuts," by Peter Barss, "The Journal of Trauma," vol. 24, no. 11, 1984, pp. 990-991. The abstract reads in part: "A 4-year review of trauma admissions to the Provincial Hospital, Alotau, Milne Bay Province, reveals that 2.5% of such admissions were due to being struck by falling coconuts. Since mature coconut palms may have a height of 24 up to 35 meters and an unhusked coconut may weigh 1 to 4 kg, blows to the head of a force exceeding 1 metric ton are possible." (Thanks to James Barone for this to our attention.) "Do Men Lie on Fear Surveys?" by K. A. Pierce and D. R. Kirkpatrick, "Behavioral Research and Therapy," vol. 30, no. 4, July, 1992, pp. 415- 418. The authors conclude that the answer to this question is yes. "A Partial Form of Lycanthropy with Hair Delusion in a Manic- Depressive Patient," by H. Verdoux and M. Bourgeois, "British Journal of Psychiatry," vol. 163, pp. 685-686. "Rewarming Hypothermic Animals with Microwaves," by Ken Bartels, "Veterinary Forum," March 1994, pp. 28 and following. (Thanks to Joseph Musielak for bringing this to our attention.) "The Dielectric Properties of Meat" by B. Bodakian and F. X. Hart, "IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation", Vol. 1, No 2, April 1994. The abstract reads in part: "The permittivity and conductivity of beef and chicken samples were measured in the frequency range of 1 Hz to 1 MHz. Differences were observed in these dielectric spectra for commercially purchased, as compared to freshly slaughtered samples." (Thanks to Anders Larsson for bringing this and the next citation to our attention.) "A Classification of Pure Malt Scotch Whiskies" by F. J. Lapointe and P. Legendre, "Applied Statistics", Vol. 43, No 1, pp. 237-257, 1994. The authors introduce their study thusly: "Single malts are well known by amateurs to differ widely in nose, colour, body, palate and finish. The layman interested in discovering the diversity of these tasting sensations may wonder how to approach the problem: what are the main types of single-malt Scotches, and in what way do they differ? This is the type of question that came to us after acquainting ourselves with single-malt whiskies during and after the 3rd Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies held at Heriot-Watt University in Edingburgh, Scotland, in August 1991." "Azoreductase Activity in Bacteria Associated with the Greening of Instant Chocolate Puddings," "Applied & Environmental Microbiology," Vol.60,#8, pp.3027-3029. (Thanks to investigator Dean C. for bringing this to our attention.) "Wavefront amplitude distribution in the female breast," by Qing Zhu and Bernard D. Steinberg, " Journal of the Acoustical Society of America," Vol. 96, No 1, July 1994. (Thanks to Jonathan Mead for bringing this to our attention.) "Insect physiology," Sir Vincent B. Wigglesworth, London, Methuen, 1966. (Thanks to Gladys Carkeek for bringing Sir Wigglesworth and his life's calling to our attention.) "Effects of egg yolk and glycerol levels in lactose-EDTA-EGG yolk extender on the motility of frozen-thawed stallion spermatazoa," by Cristanelli, M.J., Amann, R.P., Squires, E.L., and Pickett, B.W., "Theriogenology," vol. 24, 1985, pp. 681-686. "The deterioration and conservation of chocolate from museum collections," by Helen Cox, "Studies in Conservation," vol 38, 1993, pp. 217-223. (Thanks to Arlen Michaels for bringing this to our attention.) "Measurement of the vibrational response of porcine lungs to low- frequency underwater sound", by Thomas N. Lewis, James S. Martin, and Peter H. Rogers, "Journal of the Acoustical Socciety of America, vol. 95, no. 5, Pt 2, p 2830. (Thanks to Fred Cummins for bringing this to our attention.) "Recognizing and coping with the vertical patron," by Nathan M. Smith and G. Hugh Allred, "Special Libraries," Vol. 67, no. 11, Nov. 1976, pp. 528-533. (Thanks to Charles Oppenheim for bringing this to our aattention.) "Laser-induced autofluorescence for medical diagnosis", by K. Koenig and H. Schneckenburger, "Journal of Fluorescence," 1994, vol 4, no 1, pp 17-40, describes the use of fluorescence-based detection of a variety of diseases and infections from the autofluorescence of porphyrins produced by pathological microorganisms. The article is illustrated with a fluorescence image of sebaceous follicles on the author's nose. (Thanks to T. Hawkins for bringing this to our attention.) "The effects of chewing gum stick size and duration of chewing on salivary flow rate and sucrose and bicarbonate concentrations," M. Rosenhek, L. Macpherson, and C. Dawes, "Archives of Oral Biology," vol. 38, no.10, Oct. 1993, pp. 885-891. (Thanks to Wayne Woods for bringing this to our attention.) "Illustrations of the Gestalt-Individual versus Group Performances By the Members of the Rolling Stones," R.N. Paddle, "Australian Psychology," vol. 23, no. 1, p. 88. (Thanks to Jim Jewett for bringing this to our attention.) "Synergistic activation of Ras and 14-3-3 protein of a mitogen activated protein kinase kinase kinase named Ras-dependant extracelluar signal regulated kinase kinase stimulator," by K. Shimizuet et al, "Journal of Biological Chemistry," vol. 269, 1994, p. 22917. (Thanks to Mohan Natesan for bringing this to our attention. Natesan suggests that the title was inspired by Boutros Boutros-Ghali.) "Three cases of disputed paternity in dogs resolved by the use of DNA fingerprinting," I.F. Hermans, J Atkinson, JF Hamilton and GK Chambers, "New Zealand Veterinary Journal," vol 39, no. 2, pp. 61- 64. (Thanks to Doug Freckelton for bringing this to our attention.) "The Orthogonal-Random Waveform Dichotomy for Digital Personal Communications," Andrew J. Viterbi, "IEEE Personal Communications," vol 1, no 1, Q1, 94, pp. 18-24. (Thanks to Pat O'Leary for bringing this to our attention.) "Energy of the Closed Universe With Respect to the Gas of Clocks," by N.N. Gorobey and A.S. Lukyanenko, "Classical and Quantum Gravity," vol. 10, no. 10, 1993, pp. 2107-2110. (Thanks to Scott Osborne for bringing this to our attention.) "Some observations on nitrous oxide cylinders during emptying, P.L. Jones, "British Journal of Anaesthesiology," vol. 46, 1974, pp. 534-538. (Thanks to Marcel E. Durieux for bringing this to our attention.) "Learning of Leg Position by Cockroaches in Response to Light," C. L. Harris, "Physiology and Behavior," vol. 53, 1993, pp. 313-6. "Lonely hearts advertisements reflect sexually dimorphic mating strategies," Del Thiessen, Robert K. Young, and Ramona Burroughs, "Ethology and Sociobiology," vol. 14, no. 3, May 1993, pp. 209- 229. (Thanks to Andy Stewart for bringing this to our attention.) "Dissociation between the calcium-induced and voltage-driven motility in cochlear outer hair cells from the waltzing guinea pig," B. Canlon, B. and D. Dulon, "Journal of Cell Science," vol. 104, 1993, pp. 1137-1143. (Thanks to Fred Wouters for bringing this to our attention.) "Cannabis in the Ear--the Legal Aspects," by S.R. Saeed, M.S. Timms, and T. J. Woolford, "Journal of Laryngology & Otology," vol. 107, no. 10, 1993, p. 979. (Thanks to John Carne for bringing this to our attention.) "Optimal Replacement of GMC Bus Engines: An Empirical Model of Harold Zurcher," by John Rust, "Econometrica," vol. 55, no. 5, Sept. 1987. The research concerns the replacement of internal combustion engines, not of Mr. Zurcher. The author's name is apparently genuine. [NOTE: This paper won the 1992 Frisch medal given by the Econometric Society, announced on p. 1443 of the Nov. 1992 issue of "Econometrica," vol. 60, no. 6, Nov. 1992, p. 1443. (Thanks to Arthur Lewbel for bringing this to our attention.) "Data manipulation: Dr. Factifuge Meets the Three Stooges," by P.F. Dillon, "Perspectives in Biology and Medicine," vol. 33, 1990, pp. 231-236. The paper concerns how to deal with a changing baseline. (Thanks to Joe Clark for bringing this to our attention.) Investigator Barry Bogin reports: "I was searching Medline the other day for articles by one CE Graham, perhaps the formost expert in chimpanzee estrus cycle endocrinology and I found that there is another CE Graham -- possible a medical researcher from Australia. The following are three articles that 'merit a trip to the library.' Any one of these may seem innocuous, but taken _en mass_ I think there is a sinister pattern." 1) Graham CE (1992) Thumb paronychia treated with leeches. Med. J. Aust. 156(7):512. 2) ________ (1982) Painless jogging for 15,000 km after a lumbrosacral stabilization with screws and cement. Med. J. Aust. 1(9):389. 3) ________ (1993) Sudden death while lawnmowing. Med J. Aust. 158(3):216.