On a more serious note. The scientific world is kind of fucked at the moment. Most of the reviewing shit is done by volunteers who don't have the time to do a decent job.

It's so huge that it goes offscreen LMAO

Lazy ass peer reviewers (and authors), although it's also probably the editor/publisher doing open access/pay to publish as well. The journal's impact factor isn't horrible (5.5), but they're open access and charge authors $3,300 per article to publish.

Right now, the science publishing industry has two predatory models: traditional closed access publishing that bilks universities/libraries, and open access publishing that bilks researchers. The people who actually do the review (editors and peer reviewers) are paid little or nothing, so all those fees are pure profit/rent, especially as most publishing is electronic. So, this article is just a more obvious grift than others.

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This article is so funny

Little fella has like, four balls, one of them is ~50% of his total mass... It's majestic, like a furry little base of a tree.

We need a new emoji of this.

Hell yeah, we've Retvrn'd so hard that we're back to asking the hallucinating oracle in the cave where the sun goes at night

Finally, a decent Vice article

"Worrying incident" is just so... I dunno, it's both appropriate and not-enough for this. Like yeah, it is worrying, but also BRUH HAVE YOU SEEN THIS