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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

• InclinedPlane 17y ago
  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.
• m0nty 17y ago
  And also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hendrik_Sch%C3%B6n 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."
• byrneseyeview 17y ago
  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/ http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~jz/sci/