"Send this article to a hundred people and a lowball of seventy will take it as fact. Of that seventy, there will be a fraction who will believe it - or rather,

"Send this article to a hundred people and a lowball of seventy will take it as fact. Of that seventy, there will be a fraction who will believe it - or rather, internalise the notion of it - even despite being told that it is false." And there will be at least some people, who got a valuable lesson, that not everything which looks like a proper citation, is real. But btw. most people will not read the whole thing alltogether and of those who do, because they know the Mandelbrot set - they will likely figure it out, too.