Category
page 1Scientific misconduct incidents

Lysenkoism
thumb|upright=1.35 |Trofim Lysenko speaking at the Kremlin in 1935; behind him are (left to right) [[Stanislav Kosior, Anastas Mikoyan, Andrei Andreev and Joseph Stalin]]
Lysenkoism was a pseudoscientific political campaign led by the Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko against genetics and science-based agriculture in the mid-20th century, rejecting natural selection in favour of a form of Lamarckism, as well as expanding upon the techniques of vernalization and grafting.
Sokal affair
1996 hoax accepted by an academic journal
Little Albert experiment
experiment providing information on classical conditioning of human infantile subject
"Grievance Studies" affair
2018 group of bogus academic papers
MMR vaccine controversy
claims of a link between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autistic spectrum disorder
torsion field
unsupported hypothesis about effects of quantum spin
Bubble fusion
application of the rapid collapse of bubbles induced by sound waves
Huemul Project
Early Argentinian effort to develop nuclear fusion