Re:School vs. Wikipedia
by jacobolus on Friday October 07, 2022 @12:37PM
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Okay, you don’t like Wikipedia, newspapers, or textbooks as sources.
What about journal papers and monographs published by academic publishing houses? I read academic works on a daily basis, and they are chock full of nonsense, even from high-impact journals. Sometimes just sloppy scholarship uncritically repeating dubious claims, but other times intentional fabrications. In the academic literature you can find false history, faked study data, invented interviews, legends presented as factual, promotion of snake oil, apologies for genocide, and whatever else you might worry about in a source.
What about journal papers and monographs published by academic publishing houses? I read academic works on a daily basis, and they are chock full of nonsense, even from high-impact journals. Sometimes just sloppy scholarship uncritically repeating dubious claims, but other times intentional fabrications. In the academic literature you can find false history, faked study data, invented interviews, legends presented as factual, promotion of snake oil, apologies for genocide, and whatever else you might worry about in a source.