Erratum: Ecologically implausible carbon response?

Making the Implausible Plausible

Whenever we must evaluate a theory, consider an excuse, or appraise a situation, we must judge how plausible things appear to us. In short, plausibility judgement occupies a central position in human cognitive life. Recently, it has been shown that the plausibility of a scenario depends on how its events can be connected (Connell & Keane, in press). In this paper, two experiments examine how a ...

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Erratum and Response

Background: In the Chlorophyta – the green algal phylum comprising the classes Prasinophyceae, Ulvophyceae, Trebouxiophyceae and Chlorophyceae – the chloroplast genome displays a highly variable architecture. While chlorophycean chloroplast DNAs (cpDNAs) deviate considerably from the ancestral pattern described for the prasinophyte Nephroselmis olivacea, the degree of remodelling sustained by t...

Implausible diseases and public health.

The BMJ published in 2006 a paper introducing a new pathology: the motivational deficiency disorder. This time, it was an April fool’s day joke, so humanity escaped a new condition (perhaps a pandemic . . .). However, there are many papers, not published on 1 April, which present other novel diseases, from irritable bowel syndrome to social phobia, male baldness, restless legs and all the like....

"Waves of Edema" Seem Implausible.