Professor Alan Sokal, a physicist and die-hard liberal, once had enough of left-wing humanities people writing gibberish postmodernism about science, so in a fit of pique he set out to make them look stupid. The Sokal Affair is now famous. He got a paper stuffed full of gibberish published with no effort at all - and this was before open access journals, where you can get anything 'peer-reviewed' if the credit card clears.
A group of Serbs recently did the same thing. They cited new studies by long-dead people like Bernoulli and referenced Michael Jackson and comedy character Borat. Their images in the paper even had them in fake wigs and mustaches.
“Evaluation of transformative hermeneutic heuristics for processing random data” got published in Metalurgia International without even a glance.
Retraction Watch has all of the details.
Serbian Sokal Affair: When Ron Jeremy and Michael Jackson Are References, Hilarity Ensues




