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Boffins don't give a sh!t, slap Trump's face on a turd in science journal
A pair of boffins are in hot water after the image of President Donald Trump made an unexpected cameo in a paper on how to gather animal DNA from their poop at scale.
The paper [open, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20427-9] [DX], which was published in Nature Scientific Reports, discusses the difficulties of gaining high-quality DNA samples from wild animals in a non-invasive way. Feces is the obvious option, but it is dominated by DNA from other organisms, such as bacteria – so the authors proposed a way to enrich the desired animal's DNA from the sample.
However, the pair also buried an Easter egg in a figure depicting the method, which shows a baboon sitting next to an average-sized turd. And on that turd, is a tiny image of the leader of the free world.
[...] Here's a close-up of the image in question:
— Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) December 17, 2018
[...] "The editors have become aware of unusual aspects to the 'Extract fecal DNA' illustration in figure 1. We are investigating, and appropriate editorial action will be taken once the matter is resolved," a note said.
Here is the graphic referenced:
Figure 1: | Scientific Reports
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday December 18 2018, @12:58PM (9 children)
They hid the face of Obama on a brown turd too, but can't make out where it is anymore.
(there, you all thought something similar to this, but were afraid to post. Chickens)
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday December 18 2018, @02:44PM (6 children)
No, as a matter of fact, "we" did not. You did. Stop trying to drag "us" down to your level, shithead.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @04:34PM (2 children)
Why are you then allowed to drag us "up". You are both playing the same game.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday December 18 2018, @04:59PM (1 child)
Good Lord, no, that's not even close to the same thing. What kind of diseased thought process led you to post that?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @05:36PM
You both talk on behalf of others as if your words had any merit. The content of your comments had no value in themselves. Bot made a poor attempt at a joke and yours was a useless offended response.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @05:20PM (1 child)
Shut the fuck up, you stupid arrogant cunt.
Better yet, get cervical cancer and DIE.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @05:33PM
Whack-a-molcel
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday December 19 2018, @12:43AM
> Stop trying to drag "us" down to your level, shithead.
> down to your level, shithead.
> shithead
I usually don't keep trying when I already succeeded.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @03:12PM (1 child)
You kidding? They love eavesdropping, Gitmo-keeping, warmongering, weak sauce president Obama.
The juvenile insults to Trump's person are still shocking to me, but really are normal in America. It's just that for 8 years after the "smirking chimp" left office, such insults were taboo outside groups of racists.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 18 2018, @03:46PM
I'll differ with that. The real racists were the ones who stayed silent, because they didn't want to be found out. Of those who made jokes about O'bummer, there were probably two groups, roughly equal in numbers. First group, were the white supremacist type, who will tell you, "The only good nigger, is a dead nigger." The other group are just plain old assholes who didn't care if you had a stick up your ass, and couldn't laugh at a good joke.
Remember, we were just coming off of 8 years with mocking Bush Jr. as a chimp. Chimps, monkeys and the rest of mankind's near relatives were fair game.