The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers

Lanxon writes "It's true: 'Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behavior,' 'Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time,' and 'Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?' are all genuine scientific research papers, and all were genuinely published in journals or similar publications. Wired's presentation of a collection of the most bizarrely-named research papers contains seven other gems, including one about naval fluff and another published in The Journal of Sex Research."

Comments

Why aren't..

[Anonymous Coward]

The climategate models on here? Surely those were completely and utterly absurd.

Re:Why aren't..

[Spy Handler]

I've seen CRU's climate model source code. It's complete shit. It couldn't predict a wet paper bag let alone the world's climate in 50 years. No wonder they kept it hidden and refused all requests to see it.

Hacking other people's computer and publishing their private files on the internet is generally a bad thing, but not in this case.

Re:TOO MUCH EINSTEIN!

[furby076]

It's a funny looking picture. How many famous scientists put out a picture like that? He is also one of the most recognizable faces in the science community. Yes there are more famous people - but do we know what they look like? How many of these scientists have multiple movies based on their lives? It's more then his political agenda.

Grade school science fair

[R2.0]

I built a model of a nuclear power plant for my science fair project in 7th grade. I would have won (aside from the fact that it wasn't really an experiment), except that the nuns decided I COULDN'T have done it myself and my Dad had to have helped, so I was DQ'd. Fine. Whatever.

Next year comes around, and my teachers asks me what I'm doing for the science fair. "Nothing - I'm not doing it."

"Yes, you are."

"But it's voluntary!"

"Not for you it isn't."

So I decided to fuck with the teacher and titled my experiment "The Aerodynamics of Paper Airplanes". I made 2 types, and tested them using a gravity drop and a rubber band launcher. I wound up coming in second place, and got an award from NASA at the county event. I can't help but think the nuns were feeling some mixed emotions.