I would like to nominate myself (in order to exercise my egolatry) to the IgNobel 2007 edition.
After playing with my new Wii video console for 10 hours I suffered from a tendinitis in my shoulder. I decided to report my personal case to the New England Journal of Medicine. Surprisely they published it! You can find the original article here:
Bonis J. Acute wiiitis. New England Journal of Medicine, 2007 Jun 7;356(23):2431-2.
where I coin a new disease “Wiiitis” and describe the treatment.
I think this is the article with a higher impact-factor / time-to-write of the history of science (toke 30 mins of research, discounting of course the 10 hours of intensive videoplay)
The “discover” got (not surprisely) the mass-media attention, being reported worldwide (including CNN).
Please consider my nomination to IgNobel. Maybe by winning the honorous prize I can bribe the japanese ninja that wears a Nintendo t-shirt and a katana and is waiting me every morning outside the hospital since I published the paper that says Nintendo Wii videogame is bad for health.
So says a note we received from Julio Bonis Sanz, MD.
[NOTE: a PDF of Dr. Bonis’s complete NEJM article is on his web site.]