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 I'll also point out something from experience: **academics also tend to not cite sources**. I've been to several lectures and seen and read a bunch of presentations from academics. Granted, I study in the humanities, so it's not like I'm doing STEM. However, I've never seen academics cite sources at all.\\
-This has resulted in the quirky situation where if I see someone claim to be an academic online...and they don't cite sources...I'm more inclined to believe them.
+This has resulted in the quirky situation where if I see someone claim to be an academic online...and they don't cite sources...I'm more inclined to believe they //are// an academic.
 I'd also recommend reading [[http://www.science-and-fiction.org/essays/whats_wrong_with_science_1.html|this]] essay by Thorsten Renk. He goes over the ‘Citation Game’ himself, though I think I approached it from a different angle.\\