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Re:Academic urban legends: spinach as a source of iron by danso on Thursday January 23, 2025 @09:54AM (#42804627)
> What I hope to achieve with this type of reference is that nobody will discover my laziness. I simply pretend that I have taken the effort to consult Hamblin (1981), without having done so. In short, I have plagiarized the Hamblin reference from Larsson. An attractive aspect of this academic shortcut is that it is usually impossible to discover and to prove the sin committed

This very lengthy article is less about spinach as it is about the integrity and effort behind citations and research. Great lessons that I fear will seem all but archaic to a generation raised to already cite ChatGPT as authoritative

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Re:Academic urban legends: spinach as a source of iron by ein0p on Thursday January 23, 2025 @11:20AM (#42805351)
ChatGPT says it's "spinach is rich in iron" by the way. Even more interestingly, it knows that "rich in iron" is bullshit, and explains when challenged (both the oxalates and the typo in research).
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