Shortest-known abstract for a serious scientific paper: only 2 words

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In a similar vein from a law review - a one word article.

http://www.greenbag.org/v2n3/v2n3_articles_james.pdf

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I still lost interest halfway through.

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How cool!

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Scientists have more fun in their literature than most people believe:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ar200213g

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Amusing. But the Green Bag isn’t exactly a serious journal. (From what I know about it, it’s about as serious as the New Yorker.)

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My friend’s paper on deep space detection of Higgs particles. Wait for it…

http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0004

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Did you see the new edit?

Blah, blah, blah neutrino, blah-blah?

“Doubtful.”

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“Probably not”? Sounds like he’s looking to overthrow Betteridge’s Law, or at least refine it. Hope he knows how vicious academia can be in defending the doctrine.

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For sale: superluminal neutrinos. Never measured.

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I’ll be!

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Actually, I think this one is the shortest, by a longshot: http://i.imgur.com/6DHtjnW.png

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Here are some more fun abstracts: http://i.imgur.com/Sg55toJ.png

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