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Re:Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could ... by epistasis on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @06:43PM (#40722870)
> but your work depends on that wrong work, so your work is probably wrong

No, absolutely not, that's pure fallacy.

There might be some small subset of citations that work like a mathematical proof, but how many of these 4500 citations could you find that operate that way?

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Re:Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could ... by nyssos on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:54AM (#40725259)
> There might be some small subset of citations that work like a mathematical proof

And even then, you're just weakening the result, not throwing it out entirely: instead of a proof of X that cites a proof of Y, you have a proof that Y implies X.

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