Below its nearly slateless cow-sheds and tumbling iron-gated piggeries, a steep slope drained liquids from all ordure down to the pretty river.

Even Arturo Casadevall, an American microbiologist who has published extensively on the rate, distribution, and detection of fraud in science, told me that despite his personal interest in the topic, my time would be better served investigating the broader issues driving the replication crisis.

At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation : “Bust me, if she ain't at it agin!”

1967, Richard Alexander Bauman, The Crimen Maiestatis in the Roman Republic and Augustan Principate, Witwatersrand University Press.