[huppeldepup]

  “ The adage led into a humorous attempt at a liar paradox by a 1988 paper, written by physicist Boris Kayser under the pseudonym "Boris Peon", which …”

Tangent … how exactly did one publish under a pseudonym in a peer-reviewed system? Is that still possible today?

[phi-go]

Most peer-review procedures I know of are actually double blind, so the reviewers do not know the author and vice versa. Only in the final publishing step do you add a name, should be easy enough to use a pseudonym.