'Stigler's Law'

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iam amazed at how often i find, like, you kno tro court investigator or one of those sits, just how deep the bunny trail behind every false attributed court goes. I think it's wonderful that stigler's law, epon eponomy, was not actually acoined by george stegler. Like these days, when i do actually write a serious, longer essay or book chapter, and i actually do try to go and look for the providence of various qots. It gets lost in some murky thing hundred years ago. Are like, absolutely chalk full of yes attributions. Bu, it's like rotting all the way through the citationol for a

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