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Fly to Lee: I told you so.

A collection of computer-generated gibberish in the form of an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference, to the delight of hoaxers.

Three US boffins built a programme designed to create research papers with random text, charts and diagrams.

Two bogus papers were submitted to a computing conference in Florida, and one of them was accepted.

One of the hoaxers said the fake paper was designed to expose the lack of standards at academic gatherings.

The paper has the nonsense headline "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy".

It was accepted for the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI), due to be held in the city of Orlando in July.

I'd like to dedicate this one to all of the rampant defenders of the scientific method/community out there. This is further proof that scientists are A) fallible and B) biased.