Spyke
mander.xyz

How soon before someone is citing this article as evidence? 😩

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lemmy.world

This evidence is certainly in contrast to those who believe, based on the writings of Charles Dickens alone, that the Earth is around 4.5 billion years old.

🤣 this writer is genius

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I read through that entire thing, saw Charles, and just skipped right over it. That's perfect though.

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lemmy.world

We’re expected to believe that the peacocks personally recounted their lineage? In English? I feel like the author is just making things up at that point.

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Well after these peacocks were crushed by a piano, they might have been unable to recount anything at all.

I dunno, but I feel like the author might have taken some creative liberties here...

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At first I thought it was satire, but when I saw the writer had the scientific Pokédex entries I knew it was legit

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I was tired of being a Darwinist. Now I follow the writings of Dickens; I'm a Dickhead.

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lemmy.radio

The first tell was the author using the first person, and the next tell was the piano falling.

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2 Miami-Dade College, Kendall, FL, USA Department of Fictional Geology

Thankful I saw that first, very relieved.

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fckredditreply
lemmy.ml

I only read the abstract. So I missed the piano falling part entirely.

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wazreply

“I first went about the humane capture of the wildlife of C-100. A few peacocks were caught with bear traps, an iguana was captured via a falling piano,  and a peacock bass was shot in the face with a shotgun, all in line with the standards set by the Florida Constitution [3].”

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My fave part was the expired crispr kits, arbitrarily cut off at desired date.

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lemmy.ca

So this is obviously satire but reading this it just sounded way too close to current reality for comfort.

I know that parts of the document are acme levels over the top but other parts sincerely read as if written by your average Maga idiot

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piefed.social

The inclusion of Pokédex Entry numbers is great.
Also, I like the sources cited for the paper. One of them is "Pigeon-Elephant Theory: the real origin of humans – Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology by B McGraw"

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hansoloreply
lemmy.today

Is there money in writing crap "research" papers like this?

I would be fine doing this under a pseudonym. But I know UFO researchers really have to hustle a ton. So maybe not?

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notthebeesreply
reddthat.com

People also do this to take the piss out of a junk journal. Usually ones that let anything through

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Ooooohhhh... That's a thing? Let me guess, I have to pay to publish my ChatGPT-authored "research" proving that cats are actually aliens?

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I have no idea, but I am guessing the religious right pays handsomely for anything "scientific" which supports their absolutely asinine beliefs.

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Only a few bites because people, understandably, aren't biting that headline.

Share a screenshot of the article instead and they'll be all over it.

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I first went about the humane capture of the wildlife of C-100. A few peacocks were caught with bear traps, an iguana was captured via a falling piano, and a peacock bass was shot in the face with a shotgun, all in line with the standards set by the Florida Constitution [3].

Truly gold.

Edit: Didn't realize this was Immaterial Science - my favorite is the FUPLC-NMR-CE6-GC-IR-ICP-MS-MS-MS-MS (pdf warning)

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