Can academic satire exist in the age of “fake news?” Tracking the citation record of a “holiday review” paper
As a medical student Kenneth A Myers published a satirical research paper for the Canadian Medical Association Journal . It’s been cited 11 times—and not for the reasons it was written Nine years ago, I published an article in the holiday review issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) entitled “Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high performance endurance training.”1 I was…
