Funniest scientific article names

[NumberOneSpinelApologist]

Look, I know this is a weird thread to make on a Pokémon forum but I found this recently and could not not post it.

He protec but he also attac – Inflammasomes swinging the sword - PMC

This issue of the Biomedical Journal puts an emphasis on inflammasome subunits, the NLR protein family, and the role they play in immunity. CIITA is presented as promising tool for augmenting tumor immunogenicity. Several articles look into the ...

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including a meme in your journals' editorial is 10/10.

Do you have any favorite examples?

 

[pilosophos]

I do have a few favorites:

Lutz (2023): Conway and Doyle Can Divide by Three, But I Can't​

Abstract: Conway and Doyle have claimed to be able to divide by three. We attempt to replicate their achievement and fail. In the process, we get tangled up in some shoes and socks and forget how to multiply.​

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11634, Published: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-023-10296-0​

The title for Parsamian et al. (2023) is normal but it comes with a great visual abstract:

Parsamian et al. (2023): Enhanced Nanobubble Formation: Gold Nanoparticle Conjugation to Qβ Virus-like Particles​

Published: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.3c00638​

I'm pretty sure Armstrong (2017) is not a published paper but it was made for April Fools and uploaded on Arxiv and has two citations on Semantic Scholar. Try to guess what the citing papers are about.

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Armstrong (2017): A Neural Networks Approach to Predicting How Things Might Have Turned Out Had I Mustered the Nerve to Ask Barry Cottonfield to the Junior Prom Back in 1997​

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10449​

 

[NumberOneSpinelApologist]

Parsamian et al. (2023): Enhanced Nanobubble Formation: Gold Nanoparticle Conjugation to Qβ Virus-like Particles

This is comedy gold. Comedy gold (nanoparticle).