Re: BAD vs. BADD (was: Re: Most popular/common dinosaur misconceptions)

[Jeff Hecht <jeff@jeffhecht.com>]

At 9:07 AM +0100 8/22/06, Mike Taylor wrote:
>David Marjanovic writes:
> >> "Conclusion: is left to the reader (see Table 2).
> >> Acknowledgements: I wrote this paper for money" -- A. A. Chastel,
> >> _A critical analysis of the explanation of red-shifts by a new
> >> field_, A&A 53, 67 (1976)
> > 
> > And that got published! Wow. :-) 
>
>Yes, it's real!  See:
>       
> http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976A%26A....53...67C&link_type=ARTICLE&db_key=AST
>
>Fifteenth page of the PDF.  And this was in a prestigious journal, too
>-- impact factor four-point-something.
>

Curious, I looked at the abstract and found that the author had died in an 
accident while revising the paper, and that a colleague had completed the 
revision, "with the wish not to alter the spirit of the original manuscript." 
Which might explain something...
-- 
Jeff Hecht