Sokal affair
Chip Morningstar, a software developer known for his early hoax involving postmodern deconstruction at the 2nd International Conference on Cyberspace in 1991 Dr. Fox effect – In educational psychology, named after the identity Dr. Myron L. Fox, an actor gave a lecture to a group of experts with almost no content but was praised List of scholarly publishing stings – List of nonsense papers that were accepted by an academic journal or conference