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Systematic Review | Evidence-Based Medicine
A deadpan reminder that not every obvious intervention has a randomized trial.
Published December 20, 2003 | DOI: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1459
Randomized Trial | Clinical Trials
A follow-up BMJ satire that technically runs the trial by choosing very low-risk jumps.
Published December 13, 2018 | DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k5094
Observational Study | Human Biology
A short BMJ measurement paper that asks a strangely specific anatomical question.
Published December 23, 1995 | DOI: 10.1136/bmj.311.7021.1668
Sting Report | Research Integrity
A parody biomedical manuscript with film lore and broken citations still reached acceptance.
Published November 2017 | DOI: Source report: Discover Magazine (2017)
Large-Scale Sting | Research Integrity
A flawed fake paper was submitted widely to test open-access review quality.
Published October 4, 2013 | DOI: 10.1126/science.342.6154.60
Empirical Study | Science Communication
A formal test of the cultural claim that Reviewer 2 is systematically harsher.
Published 2020 | DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12824
Community Archive | Peer Review Culture
A crowdsourced wall of extreme and often hostile reviewer comments.
Published Ongoing | DOI: Community source archive
Prospective Cohort Study | Science Communication
A BMJ Christmas study quantifying predatory invitation spam and unsubscribe outcomes.
Published 2016 | DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i5383
Case Report | Medical Humanities
A famously minimal paper whose near-empty content embodies its own diagnosis.
Published 1974 | DOI: PMCID: PMC1311997
Opinion | Academic Culture
A satirical checklist of mentoring failures that graduate students recognize instantly.
Published October 8, 2025 | DOI: Source: Inside Higher Ed opinion (2025)
Sting Report | Research Integrity
A fabricated biomedical manuscript reportedly accepted by multiple low-quality journals.
Published 2015 | DOI: Reported in Fast Company (2015)
Retraction Case | Research Integrity
A deliberately absurd pandemic-era submission accepted then quickly retracted.
Published 2020 | DOI: Retraction Watch case analysis (2020)
Media-Sting Analysis | Research Integrity
A demonstration of how weak study design and hype channels can manufacture credibility.
Published 2015 / 2023 follow-up analysis | DOI: Retraction Watch retrospective
Historical Satire Case | Medical Humanities
A BMJ-era joke case that continued to echo in later scientific references.
Published 1974 / 2009 commentary | DOI: BMJ: b379