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Wounded Bear

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5. IIRC, there was a formula for that a few years back...

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 03:29 PM

Feb 2014

If you used enough of the proper buzz words in a paper, reviewers would sign off on it, even if the rest of the text was nonsense. If you used a computer algorhythm that generated random words, but injected a buzz word programmed to satisfy the reviewing agency, whose eyes are probably glazed over from reading thousands of pages of academic crap for weeks leading up to it, you're home free.

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Science publisher fooled by gibberish papers [View all] Jim__ Feb 2014 OP

Too bad we can't do the same to the Patriot Act. Baitball Blogger Feb 2014 #1

Still begs the question exboyfil Feb 2014 #2

Probably the same reason I once got an "A" on a paper I wrote an hour before class. tridim Feb 2014 #3

IIRC, there was a formula for that a few years back... Wounded Bear Feb 2014 #5

IEEE also fooled, total 120 papers ... (BBC) eppur_se_muova Feb 2014 #4

I suppose this is inevitable caraher Mar 2014 #6

Add to that a strong element in society that wants to tear down the system. kristopher Mar 2014 #7