Parody science, sometimes called spoof science, is the act of mocking
science in a satirical way. Science can be parodied for a purpose, ranging from social commentary and making political points, to humor for its own sake.
Parody science is different from science humor or from real science that happens to be humorous, in that parody science has little or no basis in real science.
One of the forms of parody science are spoof scientific articles. Some can be seen as a subgenre of
science fiction.[1]
Worm Runner's Digest. The satirical flip-side of the Journal of Biological Psychology, known for such articles as "A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown."
Sokal affair, physicist
Alan Sokal's hoax paper entitled, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" was published in the journal
Social Text.
Experimental demonstration of the tomatotopic organization in the Soprano (Cantatrix sopranica L.), a fake research paper by the writer
Georges Perec.[2]
Isaac Asimov wrote several spoof scientific papers about the fictitious chemical compound
Thiotimoline.