> editors of the journals found perfectly reasonable something that was ridiculous and absurd by construction I understand your point, but my argument here is

> editors of the journals found perfectly reasonable something that was ridiculous and absurd by construction I understand your point, but my argument here is that the hoax papers cannot reasonably be called "absurd by construction". The authors started out with that goal, but their initial papers apparently all got rejected so they iteratively toned down the absurdity until the papers got published. That's effectively "publishable by construction", isn't it?