Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle,
Sixty-six years ago, the journal Science published a peer-reviewed study confirming what many know today: a distressing share of the academic literature is nonsense prattle among the elite - even as scientists continue to fawn over "peer reviewed research" like holy scripture. Back in 1960, professors at the University of Illinois published a 4-page paper predicting the human population might grow so large that we would all perish in a global crowd crush on Nov. 13, 2026.
But as you read this, we're still here - a detail presumably too insignificant for peer review.
I'm not pulling your leg. Science actually published this. And just in case anyone questions the scientific rigor of this journal, the authors aggressively padded the paper with dozens of differential equations and slapped on 26 references at the end.
"Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve to death," the professors concluded. "They will be squeezed to death."
Stanford mathematician Marvin Shinbrot labeled the paper an "outstanding example of the inadmissible use of mathematics to prop up a manifestly absurd conclusion." Still, the Science stamp of approval proved stronger than common sense, and the paper went on to be cited hundreds of times
