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Snowyteller's avatar

While not an automatic connection it bodes badly for a theory when it is connected to strongly with a person dishonest disreputable character.

In theory (heh) one can be brilliant in one field while being a complete louse.

In theory.

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Charles Chevalier's avatar

I wonder was the era indicative of a slovenly approach to citing academics and their influence on any particular work. I remember my time at university, and it was, concerning citing works, a very anal process, and any claim to knowledge or influence was to be made with a special kind of religious homage to authors in written assessments, right up and until the point, where lecturers demanded you cite the tree the paper was made from, who pulped the paper and the company that distributed the paper, and then the academics whose works were then transferred to paper, to be slovenly in this process, meant plagiarism was almost inevitable.

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