These Are The Worst Research Papers Of All Time

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It's no secret that some people are bad at their jobs. But when those people are scientists, and their jobs are to publish papers about their work, well... Sometimes, bad papers hit the presses. These are a few stories about particularly bad papers, the reasons they were so awful, and what researchers do about bad science. From fraudulent food surveys to AI figures of rat genitals, these are just some of the worst papers of all time.

Correction:
9:24 Typo! We said "effect," but it should be "affect."

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