Here is a professor after my own heart. Dr. Kelly is a history professor at George Mason University who taught a course called “Lying about the past.” And students created an elaborate hoax where they invented a fake historical person on Wikipedia. And they got away with it. Besides teaching students not to trust Wikipedia, it’s cool.
Currently considering doing the same thing with neuroscience. Will invent a new, fictitious nucleus, ascribe some vague function (“mediates executive function”, “limbic, motor, and/or attentional roles”), and see if we can get away with it.
Ha! Then we’d also see when students were using wikipedia as their primary source for assignments! Brilliant!
Good point, although I once had an undergrad who cited wikipedia as one of her references