So many lies piled upon other lies!-----Professor says ‘junk citations’ have created ‘distrust’ in academic research

Professor says ‘junk citations’ have created ‘distrust’ in academic research - RACHEL LALGIE - UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

"...According to the article series, a junk citation refers to a reference that is “wrong, irrelevant, misleading, corrupt, uninformative, useless, or purely rhetorical.”
...“People think they can just throw out ‘the research is very clear on this, the evidence is so clear,’ but it is all built on junk citations.”...

The results can be deadly too – Gilley gave the example of a five-sentence 1980 letter in the New England Journal of Medicine that alleged “the development of addiction is rare” when it came to narcotics. 

This letter was widely cited “to support the claim that addiction was rare in patients given opioids,” Gilley wrote, citing the work of four Toronto-based academics.

The letter seemed to shut down debate on the safety of opioids – a problem replicated throughout academia.

“The reason that bad citation practices have become so endemic in academic research is because of the lack of intellectual diversity in the academy,” Gilley wrote in the first article. 

“Since groupthink is so pervasive, any citations that confirm academics’ left-wing biases are rarely double-checked. 

And so junk piles upon junk.”..