RT @ShriramKMurthi: This is a wonderful piece, that is actually a meditation on the nature of knowledge disguised as an academic whodunnit;…
RT @ngkabra: Must-read article about how untruths get published and propagate through scientific publications. Written in a fun-to-read det…
RT @ngkabra: Must-read article about how untruths get published and propagate through scientific publications. Written in a fun-to-read det…
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RT @ngkabra: Must-read article about how untruths get published and propagate through scientific publications. Written in a fun-to-read det…
If your are (or have) a child in IBDP course, this would make an excellent subject for the TOK essay. cc: @arshkabra
Must-read article about how untruths get published and propagate through scientific publications. Written in a fun-to-read detective-story style. There's a twist in the tale, so be sure to read the whole thing https://t.co/Ordh6GUYLe
RT @ShriramKMurthi: This is a wonderful piece, that is actually a meditation on the nature of knowledge disguised as an academic whodunnit;…
This is a wonderful piece, that is actually a meditation on the nature of knowledge disguised as an academic whodunnit; highly recommended.
RT @pg: Academic urban legends :: I was right about spinach being useless as a source of iron, but wrong about why the myth has taken hold…
RT @pg: Academic urban legends :: I was right about spinach being useless as a source of iron, but wrong about why the myth has taken hold…
RT @pg: Academic urban legends :: I was right about spinach being useless as a source of iron, but wrong about why the myth has taken hold…
RT @pg: Academic urban legends :: I was right about spinach being useless as a source of iron, but wrong about why the myth has taken hold…
Academic urban legends :: I was right about spinach being useless as a source of iron, but wrong about why the myth has taken hold … a good story is not necessarily a true story - Ole Bjørn Rekdal, 2014 https://t.co/cuhFiAhcwE
@JohnArnoldFndtn This article about "academic urban legends" tells a really compelling story about how this sort of citation laundering ends up perpetuating false claims. A super interesting read! https://t.co/VZDQXmwBbI
Academic Urban Legend, and the story behind spinach's iron: https://t.co/sjUALr6h73
Fantastic and important reading.
RT @sibinmohan: A wonderful write up about how academic urban legends are born and how hard they are to debunk. This probably also applies…
RT @sibinmohan: A wonderful write up about how academic urban legends are born and how hard they are to debunk. This probably also applies…
RT @sibinmohan: A wonderful write up about how academic urban legends are born and how hard they are to debunk. This probably also applies…
A wonderful write up about how academic urban legends are born and how hard they are to debunk. This probably also applies to fake news and other “well known facts” that are decidedly fake (humans eating spiders in their sleep, anyone?). https://t.co/RNB
@Omar_MalinGenie @skeptboarder My name is Popeye, and my spinach approve this message. https://t.co/BXrgeDortH
Does spinach have a lot of iron? Researching that question led to me to this fascinating (if lengthy) look at various papers over the years that talk about the answer. https://t.co/eiQAQ5o3UJ
@dwain91 Hi Shaun! Here's the @OBRekdal paper I mentioned: https://t.co/MVhLncwMAg
Fascinating!! Definitely going to slip this into my intro methods course...
RT @cfiesler: This paper (open access, yay!) describes how "academic urban legends" happen, with our misconception about spinach as a drivi…
RT @cfiesler: This paper (open access, yay!) describes how "academic urban legends" happen, with our misconception about spinach as a drivi…
"a malpositioned decimal point gave a 10-fold overestimate of iron content" #unitchat #placevaluechat
this story is the ultimate "well, actually, actually"
This paper (open access, yay!) describes how "academic urban legends" happen, with our misconception about spinach as a driving example. Or more accurately, a misconception about a misconception... https://t.co/o05iLHOtxa
On myths, I really like the 'spinach decimal place case study'. Especially the irony where a book against 'follies and fallacies' turned out to be one of the main vehicles for spreading at least one myth. https://t.co/zoIDR4GY3q https://t.co/hQCdsMGVqL
@AWarriorScholar I know, right!? Though they're certainly not alone. Academic urban legends are everywhere. This one is my favorite: https://t.co/SPneGNHh9b
RT @cbokhove: @BranwenBingle @Sue_Cowley It’s a double-layered myth: myth 1 wrt to the fact about spinach. Myth 2 wrt how it came about. My…
Still one of my favourite case study examples of the creation of an urban legend by @OBRekdal -> Academic urban legends - Ole Bjørn Rekdal, 2014 https://t.co/9vROTHJkeg
@BranwenBingle @Sue_Cowley It’s a double-layered myth: myth 1 wrt to the fact about spinach. Myth 2 wrt how it came about. Myth 2 perpetuating by those debunking myth 1...fascinating case study https://t.co/d3OPG2l4aZ https://t.co/UObP3xx9v2
Academic urban legends https://t.co/CqIbM2uMBU
What is the impact of incorrect citations? What to do when an article is wrongly cited and starts a vicious cycle of inaccurate citations? An example: how a decimal point error misled millions into believing that spinach is an exceptional source of iron h
RT @ncdominie: @rmathematicus And I suspect that historians are better at this than most disciplines... I've taken to setting Rekdal's "Aca…
RT @ncdominie: @rmathematicus And I suspect that historians are better at this than most disciplines... I've taken to setting Rekdal's "Aca…
RT @ncdominie: @rmathematicus And I suspect that historians are better at this than most disciplines... I've taken to setting Rekdal's "Aca…
@rmathematicus And I suspect that historians are better at this than most disciplines... I've taken to setting Rekdal's "Academic Urban Legends" as required reading for our research students in maths and stats: https://t.co/7JAx54HR2X
RT @sonersones: Guys, I'm vegetarian (save for the odd order of buffalo wings now and then), and the idea that spinach is a great source of…
Guys, I'm vegetarian (save for the odd order of buffalo wings now and then), and the idea that spinach is a great source of iron is a total myth, and a great example of an "academic" urban legend. https://t.co/NakmUOERIm
@alinazavatsky @sadydoyle It's the opposite - non-heme iron (the kind in spinach) is more difficult to absorb. And spinach isn't actually that great a source of iron. https://t.co/NakmUOERIm
@torisandifer @sadydoyle Spinach is not a great source of iron, and the iron that it does have isn't the type that's easily absorbed. This study examines how this myth came to be: https://t.co/NakmUOERIm
@jeanniekim @sadydoyle Spinach is not rich in iron. https://t.co/NakmUOERIm
RT @N_Howlin: A really good read for students and academic researchers about perpetuating academic myths and fallacies, following the footn…
RT @N_Howlin: A really good read for students and academic researchers about perpetuating academic myths and fallacies, following the footn…
RT @N_Howlin: A really good read for students and academic researchers about perpetuating academic myths and fallacies, following the footn…
A really good read for students and academic researchers about perpetuating academic myths and fallacies, following the footnotes to find a primary source: https://t.co/1LZzL6YDXH
RT @kaspalita: Fascinating article on how urban legends spread through academic papers https://t.co/FbtVgOHqlK
RT @kaspalita: Fascinating article on how urban legends spread through academic papers https://t.co/FbtVgOHqlK
RT @kaspalita: Fascinating article on how urban legends spread through academic papers https://t.co/FbtVgOHqlK
Fascinating article on how urban legends spread through academic papers
@DrLeonJ I think you’d very much like @OBRekdal’s “Academic Urban Legends” (https://t.co/85v1zCNPXM), then.
@StuartJRitchie Academic urban legends https://t.co/HbdAcNAAig
What the suggests is that advocates for interdisciplinarity are repeating unfounded "academic urban legends." And they don't bother to support their views, which appeal to people's biases for all kinds of reasons. https://t.co/JQTdmy1VyV Put simply, they
Spinat er ikke så sunt som du tror! Academic urban legends @OBRekdal omtalt på #SMHdagene2018: https://t.co/qGWvv1SwVw
@DrDorea Academic Urban Legends: https://t.co/ncU44G7n6r
Great article. Be careful what/how you're citing research work. https://t.co/My6lQ9lQig … … Suggestion courtesy to @BunelR (wait, am I citing correctly here?)
RT @CleoProtogerou: Did Popeye lie?! "Spinach is good for you" and other academic urban legends: https://t.co/5IwmTsOpni @fralongva https:…
RT @CleoProtogerou: Did Popeye lie?! "Spinach is good for you" and other academic urban legends: https://t.co/5IwmTsOpni @fralongva https:…
RT @CleoProtogerou: Did Popeye lie?! "Spinach is good for you" and other academic urban legends: https://t.co/5IwmTsOpni @fralongva https:…
RT @Tetraform: The error affected hundred of thousands of people thinking that spinach would help with anemia when it was about as good as…
The error affected hundred of thousands of people thinking that spinach would help with anemia when it was about as good as eating some watermelon for supplement. https://t.co/J3xZVg2ewu
RT @cbokhove: Interesting blog. An interesting case study of how citations are sometimes hard to trace, here eventually back to Reader’s Di…
RT @cbokhove: Interesting blog. An interesting case study of how citations are sometimes hard to trace, here eventually back to Reader’s Di…
RT @cbokhove: Interesting blog. An interesting case study of how citations are sometimes hard to trace, here eventually back to Reader’s Di…
RT @cbokhove: Interesting blog. An interesting case study of how citations are sometimes hard to trace, here eventually back to Reader’s Di…
Interesting blog. An interesting case study of how citations are sometimes hard to trace, here eventually back to Reader’s Digest, is this article on a myth about Spinach https://t.co/7NwIHYrkAy https://t.co/gwKLllWrRR
RT @rebecca_le_get: A wonderful open-access article that covers citing previous work, urban legends, and the importance of tracking down re…
RT @rebecca_le_get: A wonderful open-access article that covers citing previous work, urban legends, and the importance of tracking down re…
RT @rebecca_le_get: A wonderful open-access article that covers citing previous work, urban legends, and the importance of tracking down re…
RT @rebecca_le_get: A wonderful open-access article that covers citing previous work, urban legends, and the importance of tracking down re…
RT @rebecca_le_get: A wonderful open-access article that covers citing previous work, urban legends, and the importance of tracking down re…
RT @rebecca_le_get: A wonderful open-access article that covers citing previous work, urban legends, and the importance of tracking down re…
A wonderful open-access article that covers citing previous work, urban legends, and the importance of tracking down references: https://t.co/MgdGpMbSrf
RT @timurkuran: Academic availability cascades: "facts" get repeated because they are prevalent & rejecting them is to risk one's reputatio…
https://t.co/jgfvEKV41k interesting thoughts about citing and how to correctly reference 'knowledge'.
Today i found out that Popeye lied. 😱 “The idea that spinach is a good source of iron is a myth that was born in the 1930s, due to a misplaced decimal point, causing the concentration to appear ten times higher than its real value.” https://t.co/1Ha6zxd5nh
@Marmeladrome @timeshighered Thanks a lot! By the way, the AAU article is open access (no need for JStor): https://t.co/MVd4WcoSr0. Here is another (horrifying) example of the same mechanisms: https://t.co/MVd4WcoSr0
Relevant (norsk) forskning: vitenskapelige artikler videreformidler akademiske rykter uten å sjekke kildene de refererer til. https://t.co/QXmT5OZ2nf
RT @arjanvandermeij: Zo leuk, de lezing van @cbokhove. Het verhaal over “sloppy science” is prachtig. Weten jullie nog dat je spinazie moes…
RT @arjanvandermeij: Zo leuk, de lezing van @cbokhove. Het verhaal over “sloppy science” is prachtig. Weten jullie nog dat je spinazie moes…
RT @arjanvandermeij: Zo leuk, de lezing van @cbokhove. Het verhaal over “sloppy science” is prachtig. Weten jullie nog dat je spinazie moes…
de wetenschap ziet een beetje bleek niet waar https://t.co/9c5iqgjcqO
Zo leuk, de lezing van @cbokhove. Het verhaal over “sloppy science” is prachtig. Weten jullie nog dat je spinazie moest eten vanwege het ijzer? Was niet waar: iemand bleek een komma in een getal verkeerd te hebben geplaatst. En ook dat bleek niet waar. htt
RT @Haarren: Ekstremt fornøyelig om et egentlig leit tema, men mest av alt viktig lesing fra @OBRekdal. Om myter i akademia og snarveier og…
Ekstremt fornøyelig om et egentlig leit tema, men mest av alt viktig lesing fra @OBRekdal. Om myter i akademia og snarveier og fusk i siteringspraksis. https://t.co/Ql5VWXDk8a
I have spent more time going through levels of citations than pretty much anything else in researching my current book. https://t.co/edyWwzO487
RT @KaptajnKold: So many levels of “turns out” in this article about academic urban myths: https://t.co/csRFDHQeKd /cc @hotdogsladies
Academic urban legends https://t.co/QE8HfiAXh2
Academic urban legendsSocial Studies of Science - Ole Bjørn Rekdal, 2014 https://t.co/n3fM8cDajr
So many levels of “turns out” in this article about academic urban myths: https://t.co/csRFDHQeKd /cc @hotdogsladies
@MichelleFrancl Ooh, since you seem to enjoy "academic ULs," here are two short papers you might also find interesting: Rekdahl (2014) https://t.co/h1CQ6LHfLo and Spellberg & Taylor-Blake (2013) https://t.co/ou2gBANmVQ. (I'm the Taylor-Blake.)
Academic #UrbanLegends - via @Soc_Stud_Sci - by @OBRekdal, 2014 https://t.co/7iupiVOE83
Tudtátok, hogy a spenótban nagyon sok vas van, ezert etetik a szülők a gyerekekkel? És ezért tolja Popeye is? És... https://t.co/9VkTGs8z2y