Science and academia, too. There’s way too few papers being published about failed experimemts. “I thought A, so I did B in order to achieve C, but it didn’t work out because of D.” is a very useful result.

Nuclear is literally the most expensive way to generate energy and no amount of liquid salt or SMR hallucinations can come even close to fixing that problem.

You don’t need to create fear of nuclear, it’s a bad choice all by itself.

There was a specific number that was repeated across a lot of papers in my field, always citing the same source.

That source did have the number, but it cited another paper for it, which itself cited yet an older paper. Im not sure where the citations went bad, but that last paper for not actually contain the value everyone waschain-attributing to it.

The number was fortunately still correct though (and people would have noticed pretty quickly if it wasn’t).

In other words, the question becomes: “Is an egg defined by the creature that laid it, or the creature that will hatch from it?”

The reason that polar bear liver has toxic levels of vitamin A is that seal liver does and polar bears eat those.

So don’t eat seal liver either.