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Give Your Sources Some Credit

Give Your Sources Some Credit

Good and fair ways to cite studies and the experts whose shoulders you stand on

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Robert Roy Britt
Apr 15, 2024
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Imagine you worked for years on a scientific study. As a scientist, your career depends in part on whether your study is published, and how widely it is cited. Finally, after much agonizing review and rewriting, you realize your kids are grown and gone and your paper is finally being published and it gets widespread media coverage and… 

… the journalists…

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