The first known modern anti-acknowledgment in a serious technical paper
pickover · x · 2026-10-24
A serious astrophysics paper thanks its funder, then pointedly adds: "We do not gratefully thank T. Appourchaux for his useless and very mean comments" — a rare first-known modern anti-acknowledgment in technical literature.
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