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#134 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Academic Urban Legends

Academic urban legends can be traced back to their source. Theories are often based on rumors that have never been proven or disproved. Research is done by building a chain of citations and checking them against each other. If you disagree with it, or question something, you drill down an look at its citations. So either it's data is correct or incorrect; maybe the data itself is fraudulent.

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