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in 1996, a physics professor managed to get a fake paper published in an academic journal as an experiment to see if he could [publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors ideological preconceptions. ]

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Fun Fact: in 1996, a physics professor managed to get a fake paper published in an academic journal as an experiment to see if he could [publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors’ ideological preconceptions.”]

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