The fact that a group of French scientists succeeded in publishing a mock article about hydroxichloroquine and push-scooters co-signed by Emmanuel Macron’s dog on a scientific magazine just to prove that sometimes studies are not carefully read before being published as long as you pay for it is one of the funniest aspects of this pandemic. Some of the highlights.
1) The names of the authors. Leaving aside Nemo, who commented “woof” and erased with this the doubts of his colleages - much eloquent, so brilliant -, we have Mr. Willard Oodenkijk, that’s is, Mr. Wooden Dick, who accordingly works at the BITE, Otter F. Hantome (which is a play of words on Auteur Fantôme (Ghost Author), some fictional character thrown in, and so forth and so on.
2) The abstract is already hilarious. Example given:
3) The text. Oh the text.
4) The conclusions:
5) The references.
The whole thing.
