Emil Filterbag seldom gets much public acclaim. An article by James Clarke in the November 18, 2004 issue of the South African newspaper The Star gives a nodding moment of appreciation to one of Filterberg’s many fine reports.
Filterbag’s column in the recent special Beauty Issue of the Annals of Improbable Research is a typically stylish rundown of research news that others have overlooked. Here is a typical (if such a thing can every be accurately said of Filterbag’s writing) passage:
Clinique’s discovery of an anti-gravity force has not yet been reported in any of the standard scientific research literature. This absence is evidence, no doubt, of the slowness of the science community’s traditional publishing procedures…
[Filterbag was describing the discovery that made possible many of Clinique’s most innovative, eyebrow-raising products, including Anti-Gravity Firming Lift Lotion and Anti-Gravity Firming Lift Mask.]