Gibberish accepted as Science Paper
Posted by Chris Young on 04.26.06
Once again, the gatekeepers of science prove easy to fool: Three MIT students were tired of receiving repeated spam requesting submissions to the 2005 World Multi-Conference of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, so they wrote a simple computer program to generate a nonsensical paper, which they submitted. It was accepted by human reviewers, according to the New Scientist
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