"I recommend a regular dose of the Journal of Irreproducible Results, the funniest magazine I know."
- Toronto Globe And Mail

"The Journal of Irreproducible Results is the funniest thing to happen to science since Archimedes ran naked through the streets of Syracuse."
- Discover

"The Journal of Irreproducible Results is our favorite magazine."
- New Scientist

"At The Journal of Irreproducible Results, readers are regularly brought up to mock speed."
- Daily Southtown

"The publication of The Journal of Irreproducible Results has profound implications."
- The Economist

"[JIR] serves as a corrective to academics who take themselves too seriously and to the overly credulous who believe anything that scientists tell them."
- International Herald Tribune

"Inside the 32 page journal are items that will bring a smile to the soberest of researchers."
- The Chronicles of Higher Education

"... a few of the hilarious 'facts' found in the Journal of Irreproducible Results, a rib-tickling spoof ...
- The Enquirer, St. Louis, Missouri

"The history of scientific satire, for all its good humor, opened on a savage note. In 1837, three men of science published papers asserting that squashed grapes can turn into wine only with the help of a living organism, which one of them, Theodor Schwann, called Zuckerpilz ('sugar fungus', or yeast). So silly did this seem to Justus von Liebig and Friedrich Wohler, two of Germany's greatest chemists and firm believers in the theory that fermentation is a strictly chemical process, that they used their journal, the Annalen der Pharmacie, to attack the notion that wine is a waste product. In a facetious article written in a ribald style, the scientists depicted a Zuckerpilz as a somewhat unconventional creature, with a champagne bottle for a bladder. Out of its mouth spewed carbon dioxide, and out of its anus, alcohol. What is most striking about this controversy, in retrospect, is not that such eminent scientists as von Liebig and Wohler were so thoroughly wrong but that so vicious an attack appeared in the open in a serious journal. Today, scientific satire flourishes underground. To find it, one must peruse laboratory bulletin boards or eavesdrop on scientists in conversation in the lunchroom. Or, instead, one could subscribe to the Journal of Irreproducible Results."
- The Sciences

"The Ig Nobel Prize developed out of a humorous publication called the Journal of Irreproducible Results."
- Speak-Up, Milano, Italy

"There are few outlets in the world where scientists with a sense of humor can poke fun at themselves and publish theoretical breakthroughs. The finest one today is the Journal of Irreproducible Results."
- Omni

"You don't have to be familiar with the subject matter of obscure journals to enjoy the humor of the Journal of Irreproducible Results."
- Games

"This album gathers work from a journal more esteemed than Scientific American or Nature."
- Washington Post Book World

"It might be called A Holistic Approach to the Mending of the Fractured Funny Bone - It's real name is The Best of The Journal of Irreproducible Results."
- Memphis Magazine

"... a collection of writings from the humorous science journal that since 1955 has been making light of heavy research."
- Library Journal

"Anyone science-oriented will find this a treasure of genuine wit, satire, and parody." Rating: A (outstanding)
- Computer Book Review

"Es sind rund 30 Jahre her, daB amerikanische Wissenschaftler das Journal of Irreproducible Results (Zeitschrift der unwiederholbaren Ergebnisse) gegrundet haben, um Weitschweifigkeit und Schwulst, obskure Logik and schiere Dumjmheit in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften aufs Korn zu nehmen."
- Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung

"... the irrepressible humor of the Journal of Irreproducible Results is one way to hold the malaise of modern life at bay."
- Sun-Times