False is false evidence, difficult to distinguish true and false

For example, a joke article in the reputable British Medical Journal entitled Energy Expenditure in Adolescents Playing New Generation Computer Games,has been referenced in serious science publications over 400 times.User-generated content, such as wikis,are also a common contributer to circular reporting.As more writers come to rely on such pages for quick information,an unverified fact in a wiki page can make its way into a published article that may later be added as a citation for the very same wiki information,making it much harder to debunk.