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At the edge of their citation graph, determined fabricators are forced to either make up the claim without citation/sourcing or risk a miscitation by misattributing it to an innocent real source




Arguments

If it is true that...

Determined fabricators usually cannot achieve "epistemic closure"

Then it must be true that...

At the edge of their citation graph, determined fabricators are forced to either make up the claim without citation/sourcing or risk a miscitation by misattributing it to an innocent real source


Consequences

If it is true that...

At the edge of their citation graph, determined fabricators are forced to either make up the claim without citation/sourcing or risk a miscitation by misattributing it to an innocent real source

Then it must be true that...

Historically, debunking a claim usually only required checking citations 1-3 levels deep