l’ve seen some of the bizarre papers described in Maddie Blender’s article in Vice. Given their stream-of-consciousness technobabble, I thought they were generated by neural nets – I’ve gotten a couple of those during conference review, and read published papers describing automated paper-writers – but it appears there really is a bunch of circle-squarers who write and possible believe this stuff.
Most of it isn’t even fringe. It’s just BS - verbiage and ideas without regard for the idea of truth.
the bullshitter doesn’t care if what they say is true or false, but rather only cares whether their lister is persuaded.
As Pauli said, “not even wrong".