Nature Method’s June 2009 issue focuses on “Tools for Drosophila“, complete with a cute little fly on the cover. Unfortunately, it’s not a Drosophila. Instead, it’s a stock photo of a housefly they got from some online database. You’d figure Nature, of all places, would have some Drosophila images lying around?
Nature Methods June 2009 Cover
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Um…Mike…not all journals are Nature. You’d think one of the founders of PLoS might realize that there’s Nature and then a whole family of journals, of which Nature Methods is one.
Now see, I just assumed it was because they’d lost their best editor…
And you live by the sword, you die by the sword. It wasn’t my choice to sully the Nature brand by associating it with a journal that can’t tell the difference between one fly and another….