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This should be easy for most of you to manage. If you find yourself having difficulty, try being Napoleon II, or Groucho Marx.<\/p>\n
Unless you are arguing that the editors of Science<\/i> are wrong about something. Then anything goes, and we’ll happily back you up with bigger lawyers than they’ve got.<\/p>\nCite your sauces<\/h3>\n
This is the baste advice we have.<\/p>\n
Sorry. Honestly, we put this in so we always had an excuse to get rid of Richard Grant (or anyone else, come to that).<\/p>\n
The topic should be indicated in the tags for the post. You are to strictly adhere to these indications, except where it may conflict with the policy set out elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Reading long streams of pure text is boring, so regularly insert photos that may be relevant. If this is not possible, a photo of your pet is acceptable. If you don’t have a pet, you should seek therapy. Or a pet shop.<\/p>\n
This is actually done just to annoy the rest of the science blogosphere. We’re surprised it works so well, but the only way we get any traffic is when they link to us to point out how nice we are.<\/p>\n
Unless it’s cress sandwiches, and you send us some.<\/p>\n
Sorry, we couldn’t resist: our little joke.<\/p>\n
This was the unicycling girrafe’s job, but MT4 fixed that.<\/p>\n
This means that we can appreciate the arts, but don’t bring any social science or humanities into the discussions. We have no idea what post-modernism really is, and to be honest we don’t care.<\/p>\n
He’s in charge.
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The above are guidelines only. However, we go run a high-profile journal that you may want to publish in. Also, several of our employees are handy with baseball bats, so please, really, don’t annoy us.
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