Comments on: Caveat Malarkey https://blog.learnlets.com/2021/08/caveat-malarkey/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:24:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave https://blog.learnlets.com/2021/08/caveat-malarkey/#comment-1134667 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:24:35 +0000 https://blog.learnlets.com/?p=8024#comment-1134667 What’s troubling are these phantom citations… someone cites an article that cites a book that cites a report that makes a mythical claim. These nested citations can be challenging to track down, and sometimes, the bottom layer turns out to not exist.

My favorite was someone who cited a claim an article made, which was backed by a source that *no longer existed on the internet.* Even using the Wayback Machine. Worse, I found said offending article on the website of a large and reputable professional organization for people in this field. Whoops.

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