Sadly, terrible citations aren't new. More than once I have read an academic book with a good quote only to hunt down the original source and find it doesn't co

Sadly, terrible citations aren't new. More than once I have read an academic book with a good quote only to hunt down the original source and find it doesn't contain that quote at all. Sometimes it it source A taking source B's paraphrase of source C as if it was an actual quote. Clearly A never bothered to read the original source.