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The Curious Case of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy'

Original: Vegetative Electron Microscopy WTF? (2025)

Attention is turning to the odd phrase 'vegetative electron microscopy', a term that appears in scientific literature but does not correspond to any real technique. The phrase has become an example of how errors can propagate through academic texts, reportedly traced back to an old scanning artifact and spread by careless citations. The online discussion asks how such nonsense terms survive peer review and indexing.

Why now: unclear

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• Vegetative Electron Microscopy WTF? (2025) · adunk · 24

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