title: Am I flogging a dead metaphor? Sloppy scholarship and the implied spider.
authors.affiliation: Roddy.mckenzie@btopenworld.com
authors.forename: Roderick
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: McKenzie
mesh_terms: D035081:Editorial Policies; D006801:Humans; D019365:Metaphor; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods; D010380:Peer Review / Q000379:methods*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods; D012106:Research / Q000592:standards*