In October 2013, a fictional scientist, Ocorrafoo Cobange, who worked at a fake institution, the Wassee Institute of Medicine in Asmara, had a paper accepted for publication by 157 journals, despite the fact the paper had obvious errors that could have been spotted by someone with GCSE level science.
In reality, the author of this experimental paper was John Bohannon, a correspondent for Science who wanted to show the flaws of current peer-review processes.
PEER REVIEW WATCH 