While there is plenty of quality research out there, every basket has some bad apples. These are the 25 most ridiculous research papers ever published. https://twitter.com/list25 https://www.facebook.com/list25 http://list25.com Check out the text version too! - http://list25.com/25-ridiculous-research-papers-published/ Here's a preview: Several researchers at Shiseido Research Denter in Yokohama came out with a study concluding that people who think they have foot odor do, and people who don't, don't. The Oregon State Health Division and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine pioneered a study about salmonella excretions in joy riding pigs John Mack of Harvard Medical School and David Jacobs of Temple University performed a study which concluded that people who believe they were kidnapped by aliens from outer space probably were. Several researchers recently performed a very official study of constipation among US military service members. The International Journal of Neuroscience released a report title "The Effects of Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing on Cognition". In other words, whether breathing through one nostril makes you smarter or not. The Institute of Food Research in the UK performed a groundbreaking analysis of soggy breakfast cereal entitled "A Study on the Effects of Water Content on the Compaction Behaviour of Breakfast Cereal Flakes. Several researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway released a report with the title "Effect of Ale, Garlic, and Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches." Aston University in England released a report proving that toast tends to fall on the buttered side. It was published in the European Journal of Physics The University Hospital of Zurich, the Kansai Medical University in Osaka, and the Neuroscience Technology Research Center in Prague performed a massively overfunded study of people's brainwaves while chewing on different flavors of bubblegum The State University of New York at Albany released a report entitled "Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed. In 1996 there was a research paper published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology with the title "Farting as a defence against unspeakable dread". The University of Bristol performed a study that was published in Nature Magazine on the optimal way to dunk a biscuit The University of East Anglia published a report calculating the best way to make a teapot spout that does not drip. Dalhousie University released a research report entitle "The Comparative Palatability of Some Dry-Season Tadpoles from Costa Rica" Cornell University and the University of Illinois published a modest report titled "Unskilled and Unaware of it: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments McGill University in Canada made waves with their impactful medical report "Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts" The University of Massachusetts came out with a partial explanation of the shower-curtain effect, or why the shower curtain tends to billow inwards while a shower is being taken.

• published: 15 Jan 2014
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