Fun:Best of Academic Satire

Get your goat on!

Science

• Chicken PDF — the typical easily understandable paper.
• The Parachute study and the Parachute Sequel.
• We read spam a lot: prospective cohort study of unsolicited and unwanted academic invitations

Environment

• A Final Warning to Planet Earth PDF — Screw the Planet.
• A Modest Proposal for Wealthy Countries to Reforest Their Land for the Common Good PDF

Medicine

• A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder PDF
• Motivational deficiency disorder

Economics

• The classic: A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick
• You have Two Cows

See also

• Ig Nobel Prize
• Fun:You have two cows

Further reading

• Once a Year, Scientific Journals Try to Be Funny. Not Everyone Gets the Joke Smithsonian
• Using Satire to Communicate Science Undark
• See the Wikipedia article on Parody science.