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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @05:20PM (13 children)
When are you Americans going to get over yourselves?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @05:35PM
Some of us are trying, but you see what kind of people we live with ^
(Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Tuesday December 18 2018, @07:03PM (11 children)
Why can't all you other 96%1 of the world's population just quiet down and accept how great we obviously are? We are the best. At every possible thing. The very best. I promise. We are so great that we need to become great again. Trust me.
1Google for US population. Push onto stack. Google for World population. Divide.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @07:18PM (3 children)
I for one enjoy following your crazy country (or federation). I never understood what it is. Are the States the countries in the Federation or.. is it like a country with regions? I consider America the teenager kid of Europe, with a lot of party and crazy things going on. Mother Europe hope you don't get hurt and make the same mistakes she has. She is not going to bring up her distaste for your recent orange boyfriend, but instead let you learn from the experience. You are great, mommy loves you. Remember to call.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 19 2018, @01:17AM (2 children)
First one, then the other.
Our federal government was initially quite limited, but over the years it has consistently aggregated power for itself while diminishing the role of the individual states, with the pleasant effect of placing power farther from the individual voter, and decreasing effective representation in lawmaking. Suits those in power quite nicely.
If one of us is to not make the same mistakes as the other already has, maybe it's you guys who should be paying attention -- the EU is following the same path.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday December 19 2018, @03:02PM
The Federal government is like Unix. It started out as a few essential services.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @04:20PM
If only I could get the Nationalist and the Hippie Communist parties of my country to work together, we might be able to get out of the European soon to be Federation, or could you perhaps make Mr. Orange say something nice about how the EU is becoming a real Federation like America, because that's not what the Europeans are being told. Our politicians lie straight to our faces saying this banana is not a banana, every time there is a vote.
(Score: 5, Informative) by isostatic on Tuesday December 18 2018, @08:06PM (6 children)
You're seventh in literacy. Twenty-seventh in math. Twenty-second in science. Forty-ninth in life expectancy. A hundred and seventy-eighth in infant mortality. Third in median household income. Number four in labor force and number four in exports. You lead the world in only three categories: Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where you spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 18 2018, @10:10PM
Our stats for detecting sarcasm are probably pretty terrible, too!
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Tuesday December 18 2018, @11:58PM (3 children)
Is that for real or are you just making shit up? There is only about 200 countries total, how can they be that shitty at keeping their kids alive?
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 19 2018, @02:37AM (1 child)
Had to look it up myself. Per our own CIA, GP is correct:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html [cia.gov]
MAGA?
(Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Wednesday December 19 2018, @06:09AM
That list is in decreasing order of deaths/1000 births. Being further down the list is better.
However at position 170 with 5.8/1000, they are still a long way from Monaco with 1.8/1000.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday December 19 2018, @11:12AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday December 19 2018, @03:05PM
I challenge any other world leader to a contest with our great orange leader in a twitter poop slinging contest.
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