4 ms·

Every so often I see an article or paper so far out of my field/familiarity that I'm not sure if I'm being pranked (i.e. The Retro Encabulator). This would be

Every so often I see an article or paper so far out of my field/familiarity that I'm not sure if I'm being pranked (i.e. The Retro Encabulator). This would be one of those papers. They could tell me they discovered synchronized Cardinal Grammeters in neurons and I would have no idea if they were joking.

ziofill 2y ago
Agreed, but it's in a paper in Science, not a random blog post.
throwup238 2y ago
The concept of a Jennifer Aniston neuron was originally introduced as a joke, a rhetorical foil for other theories.
- IIAOPSW 2y ago
  A well known hypothetical cat was born out of a similar attempt at reductio ad absurdum.
  - namaria 2y ago
    Always a great signal people have no idea what they are talking about when one starts 'explaining' quantum weirdness using it.