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title: "Parody science"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody_science"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T04:26:52.239208+00:00"
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Parody science, sometimes called spoof science, is the act of mocking science in a satirical way. Science can be parodied for a purpose, ranging from social commentary and making political points, to humor for its own sake.
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Parody science is different from science humor or from real science that happens to be humorous, in that parody science has little or no basis in real science.
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One of the forms of parody science are spoof scientific articles. Some can be seen as a subgenre of science fiction.
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== List of parody science resources ==
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Journal of Irreproducible Results – Parody science journal since 1955.
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Science Made Stupid – 1985 parody science book by Tom Weller.
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Speculative Grammarian – "the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics".
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Dihydrogen monoxide parody, which exploits common fears about science to make people think that water is dangerous.
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Look Around You, a BBC scientific satire based on school science programmes from the '70s and '80s.
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Ask Dr. Science, a humorous radio and television program.
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Worm Runner's Digest. The satirical flip-side of the Journal of Biological Psychology, known for such articles as "A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown."
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Sokal affair, physicist Alan Sokal's hoax paper entitled, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" was published in the journal Social Text.
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Experimental demonstration of the tomatotopic organization in the Soprano (Cantatrix sopranica L.), a fake research paper by the writer Georges Perec.
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Isaac Asimov wrote several spoof scientific papers about the fictitious chemical compound Thiotimoline.
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Proceedings of the Natural Institute of Science – Online-only journal that publishes both satirical and real articles in a scientific journal format.
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Body Ritual Among the Nacirema, a satire of social anthropology research by Horace Miner.
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The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of "writer's block", an article with no content, but cited over 70 times
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Dyson sphere – hypothetical megastructure theorised by Freeman Dyson in Science in 1960. Later described by the author as a "little joke", with him remarking that "you get to be famous only for the things you don't think are serious".
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== See also ==
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F.D.C. Willard – a cat cited as an author in scientific journals
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Mathematical joke
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Parody religion
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Pseudoscience
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== References ==
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== External links ==
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Tom Weller Official website of the author of Science Made Stupid
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Dihydrogen Monoxide Official site on the Dangers of dihydrogen monoxide |