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Your twitter is the best of all of the twitters. Lots of Nazi jokes. Is there a reason behind the lots of Nazi jokes?

Thanks for your reporting in the paper and on Twitter! A lot of people seem to be deflecting discussion about the events of Ferguson and the police action there by saying "Oh, well there was looting and riots" or "Oh, well some people were throwing Molotov cocktails." It seems evident that those things DID happen but not to the extent claimed by the police and certainly not in a way that justified the police's actions. As someone on the ground, do you also think reports of looting and protestor violence were trumped up or unfairly reported? Are there any good resources to show discrepancies between police or media claims of protestor violence compared to protestors' actual experiences?

This is pure anecdotal observation, but it sometimes seems that the larger, more prestigious the lab, the more pressure there is publish in high tier journals, leading some to manipulate or invent data that may require papers to be retracted. Do you think limiting lab sizes (in terms of employees, students or fellows) or capping grants for individual investigators would help curb the publication of bad science? If not what might help?

Do you think that even if we move away from publishing (or worshiping) so-called "luxury" journals and go toward open-access journals, impact factor will remain a worthwhile metric for determining the merit of published articles?

Also, how will eLife deal with criticism or retractions of published articles?