Scientists sneak Bob Dylan lyrics into research articles

Five Swedish scientists who have been quoting Bob Dylan lyrics in research articles for the last 17 years are running a wager on who can squeeze in most of the American singer's songs in their articles.
The game started 17 years ago when two Professors from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, John Jundberg and Eddie Weitzberg, wrote a piece about gas passing through intestines, with the title "Nitric Oxide and inflammation: The answer is blowing in the wind."
"We both really liked Bob Dylan and we thought the quotes really fitted nicely with what we were trying to achieve with the title," Weitzberg told 'The Local'.

The pair decided to stick to the theme and quoted other lyrics into their work, including one entitled "The times they a-changing".
"We're not talking about scientific papers - we could have got in trouble for that - but rather articles we have written about research by others, book introductions, editorials and things like that," said Weitzberg.
A few years later a librarian spotted an article written by two other medical professors working at the same university titled "Blood on the tracks: a simple twist of fate", incorporating the name of both a Bob Dylan album and one of his tracks.

The librarian then connected the foursome.

Junberg and Weitzberg then invited their colleagues to take the idea to the next level and they started competing to see who could get the most Bob Dylan lyrics into their articles before retirement.
Another colleague, Kenneth Chien, Professor of Cardiovascular Research, has also joined the contest.
The winner will get lunch in a restaurant in Solna, north of Stockholm.