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Advertise here: Contact FM<http://www.federatedmedia.net/authors/metafilter> . Would you like to buy an fuzzy multi-instanton knot? November 12, 2008 7:56 AM [image: RSS feed for this thread]</76467/Would-you-like-to-buy-an-fuzzy-multiinstanton-knot/rss> Subscribe </76467/Would-you-like-to-buy-an-fuzzy-multiinstanton-knot/rss> "...the best place to hide bulls**t is in a refereed journal that’s not open-access!"<http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/the_case_of_m_s_el_naschie.html>The math-physics blog n-category cafe <http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/> digs into the curious case of M.S. El Naschie.<http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/the_case_of_m_s_el_naschie.html>El Naschie is editor-in-chief of the journal Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals<http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/967/description#description>, published by the well-respected scientific publisher Elsevier and sold to academic libraries for US$4,520 a year. The problem? El Naschie has published 322 of his own papers in the journal -- papers that John Baez (of "This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics"<http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/TWF.html>and "The Crackpot Index" <http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html>) describes as "vague, dreamlike imagery," "undisciplined numerology larded with impressive buzzwords," and "total baloney." Is El Naschie a reverse Sokal<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair>? Or a Markov process for producing random publishable papers?<http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/>One thing's for sure -- he knows how to cure cancer.<http://www.57357.com/Activities/Events/tabid/229/mid/661/newsid661/407/Default.aspx> posted by escabeche <http://www.metafilter.com/user/21049> (49 comments total) 20 users marked this as a favorite<http://www.metafilter.com/favorited/1/76467> http://www.metafilter.com/76467/Would-you-like-to-buy-an-fuzzy-multiinstanton-knot -tj -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] "Quantitative and Digital Skills of International Journalism and Communications Educators" http://journosurvey.notlong.com ==========================================
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