List of Parody Science Resources
- Annals of Improbable Research - Science humor journal that awards the Ig Nobel Prizes.
- Journal of Irreproducible Results - Parody science journal since 1955.
- Science Made Stupid - 1985 parody science book by Tom Weller.
- Speculative Grammarian - "the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics".
- Dihydrogen monoxide hoax, which exploits common fears about science to make people think that water is dangerous.
- Look Around You, a BBC scientific satire based on school science programmes from the '70s and '80s.
- Ask Dr. Science, a humorous radio and television program.
- Worm Runner's Digest. The satirical flip-side of the Journal of Biological Psychology, known for such articles as A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown.
- Null Hypothesis: The Journal of Unlikely Science - a satirical science website.
- The Sokal Affair, physicist Alan Sokal's hoax paper entitled, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" was published in the journal Social Text.
- Experimental demonstration of the tomatotopic organization in the Soprano (Cantatrix sopranica L.), a fake research paper by the writer Georges Perec.
- Artificae Plantae: The taxonomy, ecology, and ethnobotany of the Simulacraceae.", Nat Bletter, Kurt A. Reynertson, Julie Velasquez Runk. An article about the discovery of plastic plants, published by botanists in a scientific journal.
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