I belly laughed when i saw this diagram. It is supposed to represent an alveolus from a mammalian lung. Those long line things with circles, are they type I alveolar cells?  ha ha… horrible perspective, and way out of proportion for the nucleus, and their thickness is too fat for the size of that pink thing at the bottom which they labeled alveolar type II cell. The nucleus of the type II cell looks to be drawn by a youngster, and the spirals (cut and carelessly pasted four times without any clue as to what they do or where they exit the cell  — i will give them credit for at least putting them in the apical portion of the cell — which is still only half correct – LOL).

Just as cute is the SP-A diagram which in this case apparently doesn’t want the neck and collagenous regions to be “twisted” together as they are repeatedly reported (even by these same authors).  SP-A and SP-D both look like the three portions of the CRD are one “ball”, which is inaccurate, even for the date of this publication…. that information was available.  I wont complain about the depiction of the  single blue alveolar macrophage, or the two polymorphonuclear leukocytes squeezing between type I cells but the black things in the alveolar space that look a lot more like millipedes or isopods or some other species of insect… than like bacteria or viruses— what!!  that’s just not even funny, it is pathetic.

I am completely baffled why perfectly competent scientists can’t illustrate their findings with any degree of accuracy.  I think they don’t even see how “off” they are.

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