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Tangential: I think it should be "we investigate" instead of "we investigating" in the first paragraph of the abstract? How can such an awful mistaken use of grammar pass peer-review and other processes that precede publishing? Or am I the one who is mistaken?

EDIT: this is an "early view" of the paper, before it gets published. No idea about the implications of that.

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Their English is better than my non-existant Chinese.

The Affiliations where:

  1. The Brain Science Center, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
  2. Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
  3. Center on Translational Neuroscience, College of Life & Environmental Science, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China.
  4. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Noncoding RNA Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
  5. School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.

Should we take this with a grain of sodium chloride instead?

Sure, but the publisher is Wiley (from USA), and the journal is the British Journal of Pharmacology. Seems like these entities should provide someone to proofread the paper before it gets publicized in any way?

In my experience, even prestigious journals such as Nature Communications or Genome Biology are not willing to spend resources on professional editing. Most of the effort is passed onto reviewers.

Only Nature, Science, Cell and a few high-end sister journals really put an effort proofreading, editing and adapting figures to the general look and feel of the journal.

The people behind this seem to be working in Beijing, so there's a possibility English isn't the first language they're using. I don't want to make assumptions, just give the benefit of the doubt. This is science, not literature - there could still be value here. Or not. I just wouldn't discount it for a typo.

Unrelated cross post (can't comment on the story I only just read).. where is this magical food forest? Sounds delightful

Classic nerds, can't differentiate between substance and minutia.

You are not mistaken. I stopped reading at that point.

Edit: the status is listed as "Online ahead of print", so perhaps the error will get corrected prior to publication.

Give them a break - English is probably not their first language.

You won't survive 5 seconds in the new Asia dominated 21st century. /s

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