Academic Urban Legends: Tracing Back Rumors and Misinformation in Scientific Publications

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Many messages presented in scientific publications are based on rumors and can be considered academic urban legends
Authors, reviewers, and editors may contribute to the spread of academic urban legends through laziness, sloppiness, or fraudulence
Tracking back citations is not a solved problem and the evidence base in medicine may not be as firm as one might think
Dependency management is crucial in scientific papers, similar to managing dependencies in software projects
The complexity of scientific literature can be compared to that of Wikipedia

Balaji Srinivasan makes a return appearance to The Knowledge Project, this time to go in-depth on Web3, Crypto, and the state of the world today. Srinivasan offers his unfiltered thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of established democracies, the Russia-Ukraine situation, housing as an investment, education, legacy wealth, and which country he would bet on to dominate the future.

Srinivasan is the former CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and is an early investor in many successful tech companies and crypto protocols. He is also the author of the book The Network State: How To Start a New Country, set for release July 4, 2022.

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