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ey submitted one of their products, a paper grandly entitled, “Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy” to a particularly annoying conference - and got it accepted!

I tried the generator and created the following wonderful spoof in a few seconds: “PALOLO: A Methodology for the Simulation of the World Wide Web” by Donald Duck, Michael Mouse, Daffy Duck, Mighty Mouse and Goofy Dog.

The abstract reads: “Many statisticians would agree that, had it not been for telephony, the visualization of Markov models might never have occurred. Here, we show the synthesis of agents. We construct an analysis of Web services, which we call PALOLO.” It has a table of contents with hyperlinks and begins in the impressive-sounding introduction as follows: “The deployment of forward-error correction has refined Smalltalk, and current trends suggest that the confirmed unification of the Ethernet and kernels will soon emerge. Certainly, this is a direct result of the simulation of digital-to-analog converters. Given the current status of ambimorphic communication, electrical engineers compellingly desire the extensive unification of erasure coding and architecture.” And it goes on for another 2,000 words of gibberish including diagrams and 19 completely imaginary references.

In a famous protest over sloppy thinking in certain realms of academe, Alan Sokal, Professor of Physics at New York University got his paper “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" published in the journal _Social Text_ in 1996: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/

That article includes the mind-numbing passage: “But deep conceptual shifts within twentieth-century science have undermined this Cartesian-Newtonian metaphysics; revisionist studies in the history and philosophy of science have cast further doubt on its credibility; and, most recently, feminist and poststructuralist critiques have demystified the...