The other day I got an email telling me I had received the signal honour of being elected to membership of the "EU Academy of Sciences"...

It did strike as being a little odd that its web domain was something called " http://interpaper.org " but its old-school graphic design reassured me that it was indeed an august and ancient body... I mean, this is a good as a building with a big neoclassical colonnade, right?

And every year it produces an "annual report" and I am advised to check this out, so I can grasp the full dimensions of its awesome augustness. Here's the cover page; again keeping it very very real

But then look at the star-studded cast on its board -- ALL Nobel prize winners. Must be awesome right? But who is their fearless leader, Evangelos Ladopoulos, and why have I never heard of him before? Who is this masked man???

So why not look at their annual report, and check out his profound contributions to human understanding -- this "outstanding scientist". So imagine my horror when I read his lead contribution to the Annual Report, only to discover their website has been hacked by a crank...

A promising start....

But then this -- apparently we will soon be riding in aeroplanes moving at speeds in excess of earth's escape velocity. You wouldn't want the brakes to fail...

But wait, there's more -- not just planes faster and hotter than a meteorite screaming through our atmosphere, but in fact this is Nobel worthy work... And surely only a truly august individual would discuss himself so fulsomely in the third person?

And look at this -- an irrelevant table! A sure sign of unsung genius

But the good news is that the next article is by Sir Andre Geim, an actual Nobel prize winner.

But Sir Andre must be working super-hard on Ladopoulos Nobel Prize nomination, since rather than write something new for this review, he just cut-and-paste his Nobel prize lecture for inclusion in this journal

So yeah, nah, on that I think.