"Recently, German scientist Gangolf Jobb declared that starting on October 1st scientists working in countries that are, in his opinion, too welcoming to immigrants — including Great Britain, France and Germany — could no longer use his Treefinder software, which creates trees showing potential evolutionary relationships between species. He’d already banned its use by U.S. scientists in February, citing the country’s “imperialism.” Last week, BMC Evolutionary Biology pulled the paper describing the software, noting it now “breaches the journal’s editorial policy on software availability.”"
There is absolutely no lower limit on stupidity, even for very intelligent people.
http://retractionwatch.com/2015/11/11/bmc-retracts-paper-of-scientist-who-banned-use-of-his-software-by-several-countries
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"There is absolutely no lower limit on stupidity, even for very intelligent people." Never laughed so hard as I did when I read this line. Very funny comment. #priceless !!!
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