how to substitute press releases for evidence
Reblogged from XKV8R: The Official Blog of Dr. Robert R. Cargill:
If you can appreciate "circular reasoning," then you'll love this latest example of "circular citations," a process referred to by my colleague Steve Caruso as the "Citation Two-step" or the "Feedback Fox Trot," but what I call the "Evidentiary reach-around."
By now, many readers have been following the sensational claims made by Simcha Jacobovici and Dr. James Tabor. The pair claim to have discovered (among other things):
Indeed... academics via press release...

