20 December 2024

Le Monde est à vous: Academic hoaxes in French newspaper article

The second article that arose from my posting of preprints is now available. The title is, “Why scientific hoaxes aren’t always useless.”

Translation of first paragraph by Google Translate:

Canadian biologist Zen Faulkes is not a naturalist, even if he likes to collect crayfish or sand crabs for his research. However, he has a taste for unexpected collections. For several years, he has been collecting, listing and classifying... scientific hoaxes. That is to say, parody, ironic or insane research articles that should never have been published. “Of course, if these texts disappeared, it would not be a great loss. But it is important to keep track of them and try to learn some lessons from their existence,” says the researcher, whose collection spans 432 pages, for forty-two examples.

While I have been very pleased in the last few weeks to have been quoted in a couple of fairly high profile venues, I am struck by the disconnect this week between good professional news and terrible personal news. (There have been a couple of deaths close to our family in the last week.)

External links

Pourquoi les canulars scientifiques ne sont pas toujours inutiles (Paywalled and in French)

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Clearing out the vault by posting preprints

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