{"id":6165,"date":"2013-09-13T23:01:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T06:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6165"},"modified":"2013-09-13T23:01:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T06:01:19","slug":"why-i-find-it-unethical-to-cite-books-you-havent-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/why-i-find-it-unethical-to-cite-books-you-havent-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I find it unethical to cite books you haven&#8217;t read&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Why I find it unethical to cite books you haven&#8217;t read that you see mentioned in other books. This is an example from the Dobelli case but it is general. I spent 2 years reading books and papers on the history of medicine, taking notes. Then cited the author. About 60 hours of work for 1 citation. Dobelli mentions my argument, cuts\/pastes the citation from my text, then cites him separately (in a discussion that is overall exposition of my argument). The argument would be &#8220;it is not your text, but Burch&#8221;. It is. The work of a researcher should be respected.<\/p>\n<p>(Note that I kept reading until &#8220;saturation&#8221; of finding same points shared by many authors, then stopped&#8221; The only ambiguous point is what is found on Wikipedia: does one cite Wikipedia? What if the page changes?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10151704672338375&amp;set=a.10150109720973375.279515.13012333374&amp;type=1\">Timeline Photos | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I find it unethical to cite books you haven&#8217;t read that you see mentioned in other books. This is an example from the Dobelli case but it is general. I spent 2 years reading books and papers on the history of medicine, taking notes. Then cited the author. About 60 hours of work for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}