Anyone want a coke?

[pasithea]

Swiped this link from Schlake. I've considered this many times in the past (I'm sort of strange in that I don't generally like sweet things the way other people do) but it's interesting to see a paper on it.

http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0000698

And note that it is a _PAPER_ not an opinion column or a bad news-source summarization but an actual paper. Scary, no?

Comments

[physicsguy.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I've seen a lot of really, really stupid crap published even in reputable journals. Not sure about an online journal. Anyone browsing arxiv.org knows what can get "published" online.

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Hey, if it wasn't for the... let's say widely-varying content and/or quality of scientific papers, the IgNobels wouldn't exist. :)