THANKS to all the readers who have written in to tell us that, following our own account of playing the game of Pubmed whacking (21 February), they have had a go at it too – despite their worries that they were being sad (never!) and that they were wasting their time (er – what can we say?).
We have greatly enjoyed all the daft combinations of words – “hedgehog automation”, “crazy vegetables”, “liverwort hamster”, “cervical tomato” and so on – that produced a whack. And, yes, there seem to be a lot of people out there who are a lot better…
