Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 17, 2014

His fellow physicist then wrote a rebuttal: “Am not, am not, am not!”

At least Phil is keeping his insults G-rated.

Oh yeah? Well, kiss my ad hominemy grits!

One thing’s for sure, this is a peer review.

good thing there isn’t a comic peer review……

Immaturity at its very best!

It is easier to plagiarise than to commit one self to an idea and have to prove it too.

steal from one, it’s called plagiarism; steal from many, it’s called research

Hey, it’s better, than what most people, say to each other

And here I was preparing myself for last panel PUNishment.

You know your strip has jumped the shark when you’re not only relying on kindergarten humor, but doing it two days in a row.

Physicists don’t do well with non-scientific words.

Ya gotta love humor, keeps me from crying, (a lot)

Not too far from the truth. My wife is a professor. When she gets “anonymous” reviews she can generally figure out who did them (based on suggestions of what papers to cite, or the style of research suggested). And over half of these reviews are downright rude or nasty because the reviewer thinks he/she is anonymous.

Kind of like online comments on the internet.

Peer review isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. Peers live, breathe, bleed, hate—just like real people. “Peer review” is just a way of passing judgment anonymously (supposedly)—as plus4 and pshapley have indicated already.Neener noner noo noo!

As I may have mentioned, I don’t like to put my real name on the Internet, as I’m the only one with that name in the U. S. of A., according to Intelius.com The other one died several years ago, in her 90’s. I try to keep fairly civil, though. If I got really bad, they might go after me and drone me, or suthin’.

Phil must be one of the “scientists” Faux uses as an expert

Try signing onto a scientific discussion group. You’ll find comments like this are pretty close to the truth!

A very large Org I suffered, tried a peer review based performance evaluation process. There were many protests against it “This like using your ex as a character reference” but they persisted. It died a quiet death after one season of chaos.

It’s good to vent your anger on paper.

xxx

And yes I got the joke just after he finished saying it. Funny, I got it before he finished it.

Maybe time for a few weeks off for Pastis to regroup and get funny again.

Are you normally allowed to say “poopypants” in a comic strip?

I have a friend who is a scientist, and that’s how he starts his reviews.

I’m rubber, you’re glue. What you say bounces off me and sticks to you! Nyah!