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Why do academic publications lack rigour? Taylor on the problem of woozles.
"Academia, according to James Stacey Taylor, is replete with woozles. These academic woozles are not fictional creatures they are, rather, fictional ‘facts’: propositions or claims that are taken to be true simply because they are repeated and cited so often without anyone checking to see whether or not they are true."
By John Danaher
https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2022/08/why-do-academic-publications-lack.html