'Cuckoo for cocoa puffs' study accepted by strip club journal

29 January 2015 - 14:45 By Times LIVE
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Harvard Medical Researcher Mark Shrime decided to respond to journals spamming him with offers to publish his research for $500, with a fake study.

According to Fast Company, the researcher created an article titled "Cuckoo for cocoa puffs" using a random text generator.

The study, authored by Pinkerton A Lebrain and Orson Welles, was submitted to 37 of these journals, and apparently so far 17 have accepted it.

The study hasn't been published, Shrime isn't willing to fork over the $500 "processing fee" - but one did call his methods "novel and innovative."

Several of these journals have legitimate sounding names, but when Shrime looked into where they were located, he found they had quite suspicious addresses, including one that was actually inside a strip club.

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