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Failed verification

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Maybe I'll keep track of cases in which I found an ostensibly sourced claim in an article not to be supported by its ostensible source (i.e., found it to fail verification), for future reference as to how common this is.

Rating key:

  • 1 — The claim only mildly or understandably misrepresents the source.
  • 2 — The source says something similar but not this.
  • 3 — The source says nothing similar.
  • 4 — The source casts doubt on the claim.
  • 5 — The source outright disagrees with the claim.

Cases I caught (numbers are diff-links):

Cases others caught (numbers are diff-links):

Sources I might use

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Mathematics, general

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  • Gowers, Timothy; Barrow-Green, June; Leader, Imre, eds. (2008). The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. doi:10.1515/9781400830398. ISBN 978-0-691-11880-2. JSTOR j.ctt7sd01. LCCN 2008020450. MR 2467561. OCLC 227205932. OL 19327100M. Zbl 1242.00016.
  • Higham, Nicholas J.; Dennis, Mark R.; Glendinning, Paul; Martin, Paul A.; Santosa, Fadil; Tanner, Jared [at Wikidata], eds. (2015). The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. doi:10.1515/9781400874477. ISBN 978-0-691-15039-0. JSTOR j.ctt1gr7dbs. LCCN 2015013024. MR 3380576. OCLC 907494918. OL 27521340M. Zbl 1327.00002.
  • "Main Page", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press, 2001 [1994]

Mathematics, undergraduate

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From the American Institute of Mathematics's endorsements of free textbooks:

Other:

Mathematics, postgraduate

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Mathematics, applied

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Plants, crop, general

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Sweet potatoes

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Trees

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Agriculture, misc.

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Agriculture, post-harvest

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Sources of sources

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Subpages

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ Wallersteiner, Rebecca (3 December 2021). "Peter Pharoah: public health professor whose research eradicated iodine deficiency related cretinism in Papua New Guinea". The BMJ. 375: n2998. doi:10.1136/bmj.n2998. ISSN 1756-1833. Peter Pharoah, emeritus professor of public health at the University of Liverpool, whose work eradicated iodine deficiency related cretinism in Papua New Guinea and furthered the understanding of the causes of perinatal death and cerebral palsy, has died after a long illness.