[NetBehaviour] A Serbian Sokal? Authors spoof pub with Ron Jeremy and Michael Jackson references.

[marc garrett]

A Serbian Sokal? Authors spoof pub with Ron Jeremy and Michael Jackson 
references.

What do porn star Ron Jeremy, Max Weber and Michael Jackson have in 
common?  Very little — except the three names appear in the list of 
references for a recent hoax paper by a group of Serbian academics who, 
fed up with the poor state of their country’s research output, scammed a 
Romanian magazine by publishing a completely fabricated article.

The paper is replete with transparent gimmicks — obvious, that is, had 
anyone at the publication been paying attention — including a reference 
to the scholarship of Jackson, Weber, Jeremy and citations to new 
studies by Bernoulli and Laplace, both dead more than 180 years (Weber 
died in 1920). They also throw in references to the “Journal of Modern 
Illogical Studies,” which to the best of our knowledge does not and 
never has existed (although perhaps it should), and to a researcher 
named, dubiously, “A.S. Hole.” And, we hasten to add, the noted Kazakh 
polymath B. Sagdiyev, otherwise known as Borat.

The paper, “Evaluation of transformative hermeneutic heuristics for 
processing random data,” by Dragan Djuric, Boris Delibasic and Stevica 
Radisic, appeared in the magazine Metalurgia International, according to 
the website In Serbia, which reported on the story. The authors, from 
the University of Belgrade and the Health Center ‘Stari Grad’, appear on 
the manuscript in false wigs and mustaches.

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