The IgNoble Prizes

They’ve been awarded. The guy who walked around pretending to be a goat has got a lot of attention but I particularly liked the Peace Prize for an academic study entitled:

“On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit”

This is actually a published piece of research. I reckon it must resonate strongly with a lot of users of Sotonians and other associated message boards.

Full paper can be found here.

That list of ignoble prizes in full is here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37443204

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Is that a thumbs up for Sotonians and SWF for having goat and Alpine in it ?

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Bathsaint:

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but I particularly liked the Peace Prize for an academic study entitled:

“On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit”


I read the whole paper and couldn’t find a single reference to Sotonians.

Either they’re research methodology is bad, or they’re saving us for something special…or we’re just “special”

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