Article on Midichlorians gets published

[Dr. Strange]

Predatory Journals Hit By ‘Star Wars’ Sting

A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof paper. The manuscript is an absurd mess of factual errors, plagiarism and movie quotes. I know because I wrote it.

More at: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/07/22/predatory-journals-star-wars-sting/#.WXMiBXGQyUk

Be sure to check out the name drops in the bibliography!

https://arjonline.org/uploads/articleInPress/2/70118ARJB2017005.pdf

[progressoid]

1. Love how he threw in a little bit about Autism too.

[EarnestPutz]

2. It makes you wonder...

... how many articles from these "journals" have been
submitted to Congressional Committees as evidence for
nutty right-wing positions on various subjects. If I knew how,
I'd search the Congressional Record for entries from these
bogus publications.

[central scrutinizer]

3. Sokal Hoax

In 1996, a physicist, Alan Sokal, submitted a paper to one of the leading progressive sociology journals. In it he argued that quantum gravity was a social construct. But it was all written in such dense prose that it was difficult to understand. He used lots of liberal buzzwords and the journal published it. Sokal, a leftist himself, used this to criticize journals like this for not being rigorous in peer review which left them open to being discredited.

[Dr. Strange]

4. That was my favorite hoax!

[Binkie The Clown]

5. One of the worst peieces of fake science I ever read was in "Skeptical Inquirer"

It was an article "disproving" ESP. Granted, ESP is probably nonsense, but the experiment they described in the paper was even worse nonsense. So I guess even skeptics can be taken in by garbage.