Herewith Shall Be Emplaced the Roll of Honour in which Participants in this Blog are Judged to have made a Contribution that Transcends the Mere Ordinariness of the Merely Ordinary, and, Stepping Forward, receive the Order of the Unicycling Girrafe, and, this having been attained, shall join, in Perpetuity, Eternally and Forever, Whichever Lasts Longest, the Grand Order of the Unicycling Girrafe, and Shall Henceforth be Entitled to Style Themselves as GOOFTUG, Notwithstanding Inasmuch as Which, [Ahem, Clears Throat] ... er ... where was I?
* Dr H. E. of Toulouse, for an elegant caption entry in a Foreign Language.
* Dr R. W. of Toronto, for Much Silliness.
* Dr C. E. of Vancouver, ditto.
* Dr R. J. O'H of Frankfurt, for more of the same.
* Dr A. C. of Santiago de Chile, our Latin America Correspondent.
* Professor T. of North Wales.
* Dr R. P. G. of Rotherhithe, because he said he'd kill me if he wasn't included.
Spear Carriers, Choristers, Defiant Guinea-Pigs, Noises Off by Members of the Cast.
Matinee Wednesdays. Concessions available.
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Brilliant!
I just printed that out to put on my office wall. Excellent reading when times are at their darkest and the words won’t come. inspirational.
Printed it out, and now shares the wall with the famous study on disappearing teaspoons (Lim, Hellard & Aitken (2005; BMJ 2005;331:1498–500), something on parachutes (Smith & Pell, 2003; BMJ 2003;327:1459–61) and of course neural correlates of the salmon while studying emotional stimuli whilst lying still in an fMRI scanner (Bennett, Baird, Miller & Wolford, 2009).
This noble canon is of course incomplete without August et al., ‘The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth‘ , or Hoefer et al ‘New evidence for the Theory of the Stork‘, Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 18, 88-92 (2004).
And posted comment to eagerly…
I wanted to add that these of course are the readings every young scientist should learn by heart. And so I will….
Chickens.
Chickens?
shut up.
Reminds me of the J. Irreproducible Results paper that I once read entitled “Characterization and Purification of Human Soul”, beginning with collecting priests and jazz musicians (enriched in “soul”!), putting them in a Waring Blender, etc. etc. Wish I could find it online…
I hope everyone noticed that the study has been replicated and is cited appropriately:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2078566/pdf/jaba-40-04-773.pdf
…and while I’m thinking of it, I can also highly recommend the following Ignobel Prize-winning study by Canadian Richard Wassersug, entitled “On the Comparative Palatability of Some Dry-Season Tadpoles from Costa Rica”:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2423690
Added to my list of “experiments I am not keen to replicate”.
That’s what I like to see. Proper replication.