(Image: Julius T. Csotonyi/Royal Tyrrell Museum)This may be a risky proposal approach, as it assumes that someone other than the editor and peer reviewers will actually read the article--especially the notes. But for pal...

(Photo: Gustav Mårtensson)The men pictured above are researchers at Karolinska Institutet, a medical school in Sweden. For a decade, they've been locked in a fierce competition with each other. Their goal is to quo...

(Science vs. Magic t-shirt now on sale at the NeatoShop)2 years ago, we learned that a scholarly journal of mathematics had published an article that was computer-generated gibberish without any mathematical meaning. The...

Dan Lunt is a climate scientist at Bristol Univers...  ...formed by a rain shadow.It’s a fun idea for publishing and a sure way to get public attention. But Radag...

(Photo: Philbin 'Stache Bear now on sale at the NeatoShop)For its April Fools’ Day issue in 1972, the scholarly journal Veterinary Record published an article describing the discovery of a new species of bear. The...

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Well, of course not.Like, duh.Marcie Rathke of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople submitted a manuscript to the peer-reviewed journal Advances in Pure Mathematics. It was a long string of fake mathematical...