Not quite the same thing, but Bruce Le Catt's paper 'Censored Vision' is one of my absolute favourite papers. It's a critique of the work of David Lewis, but it turned out many decades later that 'Bruce Le Catt' was just David Lewis' cat called Bruce, and the paper was written by Lewis himself.
Not quite the same thing, but Bruce Le Catt's paper 'Censored Vision' is one of my absolute favourite papers. It's a critique of the work of David Lewis, but it turned out many decades later that 'Bruce Le Catt' was just David Lewis' cat called Bruce, and the paper was written by Lewis himself.
Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048408212340581
Correction: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00048402.2017.1358248
Not exactly a spoof paper - correspondence to Nature - but this is good.
Preparing scientific papers, N. S. Haile, Nature 268, 100 (1977)
https://www.nature.com/articles/268100a0
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