The Best Science Hoaxes, Spoofs, and Nerd Jokes (500k subs celebration)

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The best spoofs and hoaxes from academia, including, but not limited to, the brain activity of jelly, the reinvention of calculus, the hermeneutics of quantum gravity, chickens, and a fictional researcher who was cited more often than Albert Einstein.

Correction to what I say at about 4 mins 30 seconds: Helen Pluckrose is British, not American. Sorry about that.

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Salmon Study: http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/B...

The meta study on brain fMRIs: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1...

The jelly EEG: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21633...

The reinvention of integration: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/art...

The video about the grievance studies (Sokal squared)    • The Grievance Studies Affair - REVEALED  

The paper about Ike Antkare: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-...

Generate a gibberish maths paper: https://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/

The snarxiv: http://snarxiv.org/

The paper written by autocomplete: http://www.bartneck.de/wp-content/upl...

The novel approach to the room temperature superconductivity problem: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14321

The paper about exopet sightings on zoom: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.17185

One ring to multiplex them all: https://www.nature.com/articles/546214a

Would Bohr be born if Bohm were born before Born: https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.111...

Premature Speculation Concerning Pornography's Effects on Relationships: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30623...

Great big boulders I have known: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/...

Role of childhood aerobic fitness in successful street crossing: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21986...

Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Effect? https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsn...

00:00 Intro
00:27 1. Salmon Dreams and Jelly Brains
02:02 2. Medical Researcher Reinvents Integration
02:44 3. The Sokal Hoax and its Legacy
06:25 4. Fake it till you make it
08:33 5. My Phone Did It
09:22 6. Get me off your fucking email list
10:50 7. Chicken chicken chicken
11:06 8. April’s Fools on the Arxiv
12:39 9. Funny Paper Titles
13:36 10. Dr Cat
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