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Who's Iris Pear? Nuclear physics conference accepts nonsensical 'autocomplete' study
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Christian Science Monitor
Posted: April 16th, 2017
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1023/Who-s-Iris-Pear-N...
Next month, Dr. Iris Pear will present her groundbreaking new study at the International Conference on Atomic and Nuclear Physics. Or at least she would, if she were a real person. Iris Pear ... is the invention of Christophe Bartneck, an associate professor ... at New Zealand's University of Canterbury. The study in question is completely nonsensical, procedurally generated by iOSs autocomplete function. Why, then, did a conference for leading academic scientists select it for presentation? Dr. Bartneck received an invitation to submit research for an upcoming conference on nuclear physics. With virtually no background in the subject, he decided to use autocomplete to help write his facetious submission. I started a sentence with atomic or nuclear and then randomly hit the autocomplete suggestions, Bartneck wrote. The text really does not make any sense. Bartnecks abstract is both off-topic and unreadable. And yet, Bartneck received a follow-up email just three hours later his abstract had been accepted. From there, he could pay $1,099 to register as an academic speaker at the Atlanta, Ga. convention. Many journals are slacking on peer review. In a kind of meta-study, Harvard biologist and science journalist John Bohannon submitted false studies to 304 open-access journals. More than half accepted his paper, which featured fake names and several basic chemistry errors. But the acceptance of Bartnecks fake study may be less surprising. The conference smacks of a scam.
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