Yep, I quite understand

Came here to say this. You can submit it if you want, but it’s just going to sit on my desk rather than yours

North head?

Gannets at Muriwai?

Regards, fleshily

The delay between the bite/ scratch and neuro symptoms of rabies can be up to years, and sometimes people don’t even know they’ve been scratched

We rely on our peer reviewers who have a more granular knowledge of the specific topic to pick up this sort of issue

I do understand that view point, but the approach most journals are taking is to avoid being accusatory and instead tell authors that 1) all uses of AI must be declared in a statement within the article, and 2) please fix these non-existent references.

To clarify - we are checking that all cited references actually exist. We cannot check that each reference actually says what the author says it does - not enough hours in the day for that unfortunately

I’m EIC of a scientific journal. We are currently checking the veracity of every reference in every paper we publish - while we wait for our publisher to roll out a tool to do it for us

Exactly.