The unquiet corpse of Ingelfinger is still shambling around, smashing up science | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

"It’s very doubtful that Franz J. Ingelfinger ever intended the rule named in his honour to prevent online preprints — after all, such things didn’t exist when he introduced his no-prior-publication policy at the New England Journal of Medicine in 1969, or even at the time of his death in 1980. Yet the rule lingers on in corrupt form."