Post by azzajones on Feb 19, 2018 7:12:22 GMT
from ign.com
The scientific field isn't immune to 'fake news', after an anonymous 'biologist' submitted a paper based purely on an episode of Star Trek.
io9 reports that the paper took its cue from the events of Star Trek: Voyager's 'Threshold' episode, in which Captain Janeway authorises Tom Paris' attempt to break the transwarp barrier - which he does, but at a price. Travelling at warp 10 accelerates the human evolution process and turns him into an amphibian.
Rapid Genetic and Developmental Morphological Change Following Extreme Celerity was accepted by four different journals and actually published in the American Research Journal of Biosciences, who asked for $50 in exchange.
The paper's author is noted as one Doctor Lewis Zimmerman, Star Trek's holoengineer and scientist who created the Emergency Medical Hologram. The author even thanked the United Federation of Planets along with Brannon Braga, Voyager's producer.
The paper has since been taken down from the website following the media coverage that reported it was fake.
io9 reports that the paper took its cue from the events of Star Trek: Voyager's 'Threshold' episode, in which Captain Janeway authorises Tom Paris' attempt to break the transwarp barrier - which he does, but at a price. Travelling at warp 10 accelerates the human evolution process and turns him into an amphibian.
Rapid Genetic and Developmental Morphological Change Following Extreme Celerity was accepted by four different journals and actually published in the American Research Journal of Biosciences, who asked for $50 in exchange.
The paper's author is noted as one Doctor Lewis Zimmerman, Star Trek's holoengineer and scientist who created the Emergency Medical Hologram. The author even thanked the United Federation of Planets along with Brannon Braga, Voyager's producer.
The paper has since been taken down from the website following the media coverage that reported it was fake.
