The Importance of Citing Sources in Scholarly Communication

"I don't do scholarly communication, and neither does Alton Brown. We are infotainers, and citations usually aren't particularly infotaining," he says. "Alton threw out this claim that he closes off the imperfections in a pan surface, and he did not cite his sources." The man was making cable television for God's sake, so I don't know how he came to that conclusion.