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# Dishonesty in Academia? Say It Ain't So!
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/670/
- Published: 2005-04-17T20:30:24.000Z
- Updated: 2005-04-17T20:30:24.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

"A group of American students revealed last week that they had submitted an "academic paper" consisting of computer-generated gobbledegook to a scientific conference - and it was accepted. The students were convinced that many academic conferences were only concerned with profiting from the submission fee for papers. The ninth World Multi-Conference on Systematics, Cybernetics and Informatics proved them right by welcoming their creation, Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy."

"To produce the paper, the students set a computer to spew out an impressive-looking mulch of complicated words and 'context-free grammar.'"

[LINK](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/04/17/dl1702.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/04/17/ixopinion.html&ref=thedailyeudemon.com)