In this golden age of con men (call them “con artists”, if you are persnickety about your lingo), more of them are worming their way into the science world. Those science con men are devising new ways to manipulate things at ever-deeper professional levels. A team of detectives writes, in The Conversation, about some muck […]
A paper, published in Medium, tries “to analyze how Ig Nobel Prize-Winning papers are supported or disputed in later research.”
The Scite organization analyzed some of what happened to the research papers that won Ig Nobel Prizes. Scite published their analysis (which was led by Mason Hayes) online, in Medium: How are Ig Nobel Prize-Winning Papers Cited? …Though most Ig Nobel research remains relatively obscure, some award-winning work has been highly cited and become quite […]