The 2024 Top 10 weirdest bits of published Scientific Research — #IgNobel

Every September since 1991 the IgNobel awards are given out, and so we now have the 2024 awards.

The what?

The IgNobel a satire of the Nobel prize which is shortly coming up. However, the published research that gets an IgNobel is real research. Basically they go find the weirdest whackiest research paper and then grant the researchers an award. Usually they turn up in person to receive the award.

Yes, it’s weird and wild whacky stuff, but it is also fun, and done with good humor.

They get real Nobel laureates to give out the prizes when they hold a prize giving ceremony each year at MIT.

OK, so my point is this — the list of the 10 weirdest bits of published Scientific Research is not simply my opinion, each of these ten have been officially recognised as such.

No more preamble, let’s just jump in now.

The top ten 2024 IgNobel Winners

Details mined via this link here.

Now remember, none of this is a spoof, all of it is real published research.

1. PEACE PRIZE [USA]

B.F. Skinner, for experiments to see the feasibility of housing live pigeons inside…