Trial lawyers suing over a popular weedkiller saw six words they never want to read in a court document
approving a motion to dismiss a study they consider vital to their future yacht payments:
"Zhang’s meta-analysis is junk science."
This is not just authoritative, it is humiliating.
It doesn't end there. The court saw through their pay-to-publish scam and was immune to their time-honored technique of immediately having a bunch of other papers cite it to increase its impact factor and H-index.