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I think people have this faith and just the fact that if it was published it must be super legit but you know the peer review process is not bulletproof some journals have a reputation for having a peer review process that is questionable to say the least sometimes and the number of times where I've read an article and it's given me a reference I'm like oh that's a really important statement like I really want to see where that conclusion came from and I'll look at the reference and I'll read the original article and I'm like I'm pretty sure this article did not say that let's be honest here a lot of researchers when they're citing things like we are not really meant to but in reality a lot of the time they're just reading the abstract as well they're just reading the abstract and they'd be like yeah this kind of fits and they just sort of Chuck it in there okay and it's like I'm hoping that no one really catches me out just the way that people view I think references is they see it as