>No, no way does a serious paper go to print with a source like that. Many did it with Adrian Zenz ad nauseum and there's a few other outliers i've noticed. It

>No, no way does a serious paper go to print with a source like that. Many did it with Adrian Zenz ad nauseum and there's a few other outliers i've noticed. It's kinda silly. People claim he's the target of a chinese disinformation campaign but he couldn't be an easier target if he tried. From his far right political views to taking a number from a dubious source to begin with, rounding up a ton and then listing an even higher number or quoting numbers from a more reputable paper and adding some extra zeroes because what's a decimal point even? One would chalk it up to a mistake if he didn't pull constant weird mistakes in his favour.