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That first reply in. Just... holy fuck. "You expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is accurate?" I mean... yes? If I can spend two months trawling old Usenet newsgroups for the origins of a product license, a researcher can do that at a bare minimum.

Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.