Mike Taylor on the Dinosaur list has this in his signature:
"Conclusion: is left to the reader (see Table 2).
Acknowledgements: I wrote this paper for money" -- A. A. Chastel,
A critical analysis of the explanation of red-shifts by a new field, A&A 53, 67 (1976)
While it was the 70s, this was in a prestigious journal. You can see the paper for yourself [2.2 Mb PDF].
Clearly not a philosopher. We pay other people to let us write papers...
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The money comment is priceless (inadvertent pun there) but I wonder if the odd conclusion is because the front page notes the author died in an accident before the revised (and published) paper was finished and was "communicated" by a colleague?