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[–]IridescentAnaconda 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I dare you to find a reference to the side effect you're talking about.

Can't find it, can you?

Oh, you seem to have saved some article you downloaded 3 months ago?

Sorry, that won't do: it's no longer part of the scholarly record.

[–]bobbobbybob 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

it's no longer part of the scholarly record.

Funny. When I was at university, I'd have to search dusty old libraries for copies of papers written 10-200 years previously.

Nowadays, if it isn't politically acceptable, research vanishes in weeks

[–]ReeferMadness 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We are living in the new dark ages.

[–]book-of-saturday 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep, fucking with archives sites and Wikipedia, even changing old news articles (which is such a scum move)