[UA] Pop Culture Update

[Bailey Watts]

>Well now, to be fair, it's not terribly realistic to expect college English
>professors to be familiar with something as obscure and (to most people)
>uninteresting as the intersection between fantastic fiction and occult
>trivia.
>
>I knew a guy who used to put a fake book by "Edmund C. Scott" in every
>bibliography when he was in high school.  If I recall correctly, he got
>away with "Edith Wharton: Man or Myth?" but was called out on "Great
>Recipies of the Bible."
>
>-G.

It's gotten much worse with internet "sources" being okay to insert into 
papers and internet content being ridiculously easy to create.  I had one 
buddy who would put whatever bizzare information he liked on one of his web 
pages with impressive sounding domnains like worldcancerreasearch.com.  From 
corresponding with friends at other schools this sort of thing is apparently 
widespread.

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