I frequently find myself frustrated by people who consider everything they read on the Internet to be true, despite the fact that it’s ridiculously easy to create a respectable-looking webpage and fill it with completely unverified and/or false information. (Though, there are certainly those who skip the “respectable-looking” part entirely…for a glaring example, check out This webpage).

Anyways, all this to say I was reading a book for school today, and came upon this quote:

For the most part, the present study has ignored…the Internet material that is posted without having passed the rigorous process of peer review that characterizes true scholarship. (emphasis mine)

It made me laugh, I hope you enjoy it, and never forget that being on the internet does not make something true, and if it’s only on the Internet, makes it that more likely to be not true.