Punecessary title joke

Submitted by Steve on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 18:30

Well Matias and I have been spotting these for a while so I thought this could be an online wall of fame/shame for the worst puns ever to appear in titles of papers in otherwise respectable journals. This was prompted by my discovery today of this - the culprit/genius punster being my supervisor in this case!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9843198

Groan! I also feel that this deserves a special mention.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12509281

Getting a joke like that past the editors is basically the goal of my life.

Anyone else have any favourites?

A classic

Submitted by Steve on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 19:01.

I almost forgot - this is one of the all-time top molecular biology puns, with an entire issue of Nature Genetics dedicated to it. So popular was this joke that it's been reprinted twice since.

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v21/n1s/covers/index.html

Scandal! Sex-starved and still surviving

Submitted by Matias on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 08:33.

This News Feature from Nature a few months back was of its own class: "Scandal! Sex-starved and still surviving" (written in huge headline font reminiscent of The Sun etc):
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080409/full/452678a.html

The piece has to do with asexual reproduction of bdelloid rotifers. Yummy.

Dear God...

Submitted by Steve on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 14:31.

How the hell did they get this one past the editors?? That's just downright filthy, and in Science no less! Perhaps it's not an American word...in any case I take my hat off to them!

http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/scisignal.125pe32