Using a Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) lens and borrowing from uptake theory, this project examines miscommunication between various reports on Le Trionnaire et al’s study in medicinal chemistry, a study that is infamous in some scientific communities as the piece that spawned a “farts cure cancer” debacle in 2014. The outlandish nature of this claim does not naturally lend itself towards what is generally considered serious scholarly work, yet this case, with its movement through multiple genres and communities, is a prime case for observing how miscommunication occurs between scientific and public communities, an issue that has become more prominent in technical communication and medical rhetoric studies. The Le Trionnaire et al article is reported in three main forms: scholarly scientific article, university press release, and journalistic news article. These forms are examined individually and comparatively to track changes in presentation of the original information across online spaces.