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What do you suppose would be the odds of a literary theorist getting a parody of a physics paper published in a physics journal?

Well, actually...

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/



And also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hendrik_Sch%C3%B6n

"Jan Hendrik Schön (born 1970) is a German physicist who briefly rose to prominence after a series of apparent breakthroughs that were later discovered to be fraudulent.[1] Before he was exposed, Schön had received the Otto-Klung-Weberbank Prize for Physics in 2001, the Braunschweig Prize in 2001 and the Outstanding Young Investigator Award of the Materials Research Society in 2002."


Note that this appears to be a scam conference. The people who pulled this prank were proving that the conference had bad reviewing practices, not that the study of physics does:

http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~jz/sci/


That's a funny link, but you really, really don't want to open up the "are physics or computer scientists smarter" debate, a lot of people here probably don't want to know the truth.




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