Funny Ways of Scientific Misconduct

So, I have to start this one with a disclaimer: committing scientific misconduct is no joke. It is grossly unethical, no exceptions. (As a scientist, I actually have strong feelings about this.) It's more like... political extremism is also not funny (it harms people) but extremist propaganda very well can be... You know. Laughing instead of crying, and all that. Because I am a natural cynic, I conceptually enjoy creative ways of manipulation, logical fallacies, and lying with statistics, while still condemning them in practice. I have, at one conference, played a drinking game involving obviously shitty statistical methods on posters - please, consider it an act of self-defense (the other players and I were merely trying to preserve our mental health) rather than acceptance of bad scientific practice. When done intentionally, this shit needs to be called out (and the perpetrator ousted from the scientific community).

That being said... It's important to be aware. Let's enjoy some good old scientific dishonesty.

( Hooray, fun, so much fun... Bad science. )

And the sad thing is, I probably forgot some.