The steam robot was another hoax...
http://www.bigredhair.com/steamman/index.html
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If her recent confessional letter is accurate, it looks as though Murphy
and her co-conspirator (former husband) wanted to see if they fool the
editor into publishing their letter just as they supposed the
guitar-nipple author had. She says now that they were surprised at the
time when the BMJ published their cello-scrotum letter. It's as though
reading the guitar-nipple letter suggested to them that there was a
presumably small number of BMJ contributors who enjoyed hoodwinking the
gatekeepers and they, Murphy and husband, wanted to be in that number.
Maybe they wanted to see just how outrageously silly a letter they could
get published.
According to the Independent's version of events, the person whose name
was on the guitar-nipple letter said he knew nothing of it until the
Murphy's contacted him a year after they 'copied' him. Is that not
strange? Wouldn't his colleagues have joked with him about it? Or were
letters to the BMJ read by nobody in those days?
Chris
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Yep, the motive behind scrotumgate clearly appears to be humour, so
there's a difference there...
j
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:21:38 +0000
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Good call I had totally forgotten about that one - Dawkins refers to it
his book of essays A Devil's Chaplain (I think!!) This one was really
trying to prove a point though wasn't it, scrotumgate was just about
humour..
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How does this compare with the Sokal Affair that played such a big role
in the 'Science Wars'? (I'll give the wikipedia reference, but I'm sure
there are many others:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair)
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> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:41:20 +0000
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> The cello-scrotum-and-guitar-nipple story that's doing the rounds
today (see e.g. here
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news
/exposed-the-myth-of-cello-scrotum-1517846.html.) makes me wonder how
common spoofs of this kind are in STM journals. Anyone have an inkling?
Are all scientists, engineers, medics, journal editors as happy to
accept it it as merely adding to the gaiety of life as the BMJ
spokesperson quoted on BBC News. What about the authors of the
admittedly lighthearted paper published as a Christmas 2008 feature in
the BMJ that shamed Murphy into her confession?
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> I mean that's one fewer complaint to go to your GP with if you need a
sickie.
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> Chris
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