Playing a practical joke on a friend can be quite amusing and humorous. So upon reading this article, I was particularly interested in the fact that a journalist with a Ph.D. was essentially playing a practical joke on today’s media. Granted, the moral of John Bohannon’s experiment was more than just some easy laughs and amusement. He manipulated both the scientific process and the journalist’s that published his findings. In regards to manipulation, Bohannon starts right from the beginning. He is a smart man and takes advantage of the average person by changing his name for the article’s sake. He goes by Johannes Bohannon, Ph.D., noting that his Ph.D. is in molecular biology of bacteria and not of people. He understands that the average