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Der Schlangemann

In 2008, after receiving a series of Call-for-Paper e-mails, a couple of students used the SCIgen computer program to generate a false scientific paper titled Towards the Simulation of E-Commerce, using "Herbert Schlangemann" as the author.

Mladen Savović

Dr. Savovich has published technical papers in international and Russian journals, has been a peer reviewer for the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, and has taught part-time at the Yugorsk State University, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.


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Cindy Buxton

In 1978 she co-wrote the first scientific paper about the Shoebill, in Zambia.

Marc Sorenson

Dr. Sorenson has published a scientific paper in the journal Dermatoendocrinology, on Vitamin D and erectile dysfunction (ED), theorizing that lack of vitamin D or sunlight could be a contributor to ED.

Sylvia Lawler

Lawler's lifetime work was recognised in the form of the Royal Society of Medicine Syliver Lawler prize, each year two prizes are offered for the best scientific paper and the best clinical paper.

The Hungry Gene

Based on interviews with the parties involved, she reports that Leptin was co-discovered at Rockefeller University by Rudolph Leibel, Jeffrey Friedman, and members of their laboratories, and explains why Leibel and others were excluded by Friedman in the scientific paper that announced the discovery.

Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan

It is written in the style of a scientific paper and catalogues an apocryphal series of bizarre experiments intended to measure the psychosexual appeal of Ronald Reagan, who was then the Governor of California and candidate for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination.