3 Copyright Myths by Kelley Way
Unveil the truth behind three copyright myths and learn what the law really says about ownership, credit, and contracts.
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I usually don't share any #dream, because they are almost always just 10% as interessting for the other people than they seem to myself. This is one is just too real: I forgot to cite all my sources in a #research #paper and hat to do it all at the enf. The paper had an infinite amount of pages and the required #citation style kept changing. #citeyoursource people! Or you'll go to citation hell!
Which is not to say there was anything wrong with that study, but it was clearly speculative back then and we're now over 40 years on from that. The agrochemical landscape has changed a bit!
So...looks like we should probably be using a more up-to-date source for that particular estimate! That "UN report, 2017" actually had a rather longer story behind it...
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After some digging, it seems this report cited (or was trying to cite, with a not very useful citation), a 1985 paper:
JEYARATNAM, J. (1985) Health problems of pesticide usage in the Third World. British Journal of Industrial Medicine, 42: 505-506.
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And that was actually citing a 1990 WHO report:
World Health Organization & United Nations Environment Programme. (1990). Public health impact of pesticides used in agriculture. World Health Organization. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/39772
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That, in turn, cited a 2003 paper:
Lee, B. W., London, L., Paulauskis, J., Myers, J., & Christiani, D. C. (2003). Association between human paraoxonase gene polymorphism and chronic symptoms in pesticide-exposed workers. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 45(2), 118-122.
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But this cited a 2013 paper:
Svensson, M., Urinboyev, R., Wigerfelt Svensson, A., Lundqvist, P., Littorin, M., & Albin, M. (2013). Migrant agricultural workers and their socio‐economic, occupational and health conditions–a literature review. (July 1, 2013).
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"200,000 pesticide deaths per year", a story of chasing references through time.
I was following up the source for this figure, as it seemed surprisingly high to me and I'd seen other reports suggesting less than 10% of that.
Initial citation given was a UN report from 2017: https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g17/017/85/pdf/g1701785.pdf?OpenElement
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@edk also for text. The chain of information allows people to uncover problematic information sources (which are more and more likely to be AI these days, I guess)
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