"infamous" = celebrated & day of infamy

[Joel S. Berson]

Quite true--some are, some aren't disreputable, some merely
off-beat.  And the original submission was, I think, about just one
paper/one Ig prize, the character of which I don't know.

Joel

At 3/15/2006 10:57 AM, you wrote:
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>from Joel S. Berson:
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>I was thinking that the various research papers honored by Ig Nobels are
>being deemed sometimes disreputable, and of little to no value.  Isn't that
>at least a little bad for a scientist?
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>But not all such papers. Some of them are of real scientific value but just
>sound funny, like the one about herring communicating via fart.
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