http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/bogdanov.html
Fascinating reverse-Sokol? Two brothers write nonsense physics papers, get them published in peer-reviewed physics journals. It now appears that this was not actually a hoax—the Bogdanovs were at least trying to do proper physics, although their papers should have been rejected for being crap. (Which, from the point of view of the physics community, is an outcome almost as bad.)
A long Usenet thread started on the 23rd of October with a post from the respected John Baez. Among the messages is an amusingly cautious reminder from Alan Sokol that “from the mere fact of publication of my parody … not much can be deduced.” (This is a real quote, but it’s quite a contrast to the first few paragraphs of his Lingua Franca article.)
(Update: French TV Stars Rock the World of Theoretical Physics.)