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** Even though a Zombie Apocalypse scenario is hypothetical, the author of this book called it a "realistic portrayal of a [[Zombie Apocalypse]]" and claimed that he did extensive research on what would happen during one, yet got many things wrong, among them basic human biology, the mechanics of infection, and mob psychology.

** There's also his extremely inaccurate portrayal of firearms. Namely, Max Brooks (the novel's author) seems to believe in the myth that the .22 Long Rifle round (an extremely small and underpowered round used for shooting cans off your back fence) can penetrate the skull and "bounce around" inside the brain, killing targets in one hit. It's brought to extremes when the .22 round becomes "standard issue", even though most Americans would have larger calibre weapons, and there are much, much more powerful rounds in common use produced in large numbers (like 5.56mm/.223, the standard military cartridge for practically every military in the world). Oh, and then there's the 5.56mm round that could penetrate into the brain and then explode, frying the ENTIRE BRAIN with one shot.

* ''Memoirs of a Geisha''. The author heavily insinuates the factual nature of the book, and then reveals it's all made up on the final page. That's not to say he didn't do his research. He just systematically ignored his findings to the point where the interviewee had to release her own book correcting all the misconceptions raised. Oh, and she contributed under condition of anonymity, which the author dutifully dismissed as a parting blow.

* ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' author and [[Ascended Fanboy]] professor Curtis Saxton did some impressive research on the ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies, and whose analysis led to the official length of the Executor-Class Super Star Destroyers being resized to 19 kilometers, up from 8. His fans swear up and down by him. Skeptics and critics however couldn't help but notice the numerous multiple order of magnitude overestimations, to the point where some accuse him of ignoring the setting and [[Armed with Canon|trying to rewrite it]] to win the online vs. debate which he denied being a part of, but was heavily suspected of being involved despite that. His critics don't accuse him of botching his calculations so much as deliberately using non-existent constraints that would increase his figures or ignoring anything that would involve reducing his figures even if the higher figure is literally the only example of the higher instance and there are hundreds of other instances that support a lower figure (invisible light speed turbolasers because there is one case of the destruction happening slightly before the bolt hits).