From Retraction Watch: "I know imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...

[NNadir]

Retraction Watcnh is a wonderful website that monitors retractions in the primary scientific literature.

I was reading this article: 'The sincerest form of flattery’: How a math professor discovered his work had been plagiarized... in which a Math Professor learned that one of his works had been plagiarized.

I found a quote from the professor amusing:

I know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and I’m sufficiently flattered, and I know that even a Harvard President was let go for lesser forms of plagiarism, but Integral University of Lucknow is not exactly Harvard. We may already live in a post-truth world (if Trump gets reelected it’s proof positive that we do) and I don’t quite have it in me to destroy the futures of some random students (or perhaps faculty?) in India. The online journal where it appeared is published in Teheran, and does not appear on Beall’s list of predatory journals. What to do?

I bolded the part that amused me.

It's in the psyche of the world that Trump is a pathetic liar.

[niyad]

1. Apparently, everyone knows it except the pukes.

[TwilightZone]

3. They know.

They're the ones pushing the lies. They support Trump because he lies, not in spite of it.

[TwilightZone]

2. I think we were already in a post-truth world in 2016.

When tens of millions didn't care that their preferred candidate was a pathological liar, I think that milestone was probably met.

I think it's only gotten worse since.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Great sig line -- I don't think I've seen that quote before. nt