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Gary Brecka is Human Biologist, biohacker, & anti-aging expert. His mantra, Aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort.

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The CRAAP Test is a tool used to evaluate research sources. It helps students decide if a source is reliable and appropriate for academic work. CRAAP stands for Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose, which are five questions you can ask to judge whether a source is trustworthy.

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Applying CRAAP Test to Articles:

Currency: Date

Relevancy: Title, abstract, introduction

Authority: Author, author affiliation

Accuracy: Source, journal

Purpose: Skim introduction and conclusion for tone, bias

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You have come across this article because you are researching what types of foods should and should not be included in a healthy diet for children?

Use the CRAAP test to evaluate this source:

1. What strategies did you have to use to apply the CRAAP test?

2. Based on your evaluation would you use this article?

3. How far along in the CRAAP test did you get?

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Girl Scout cookies are accused of containing toxins. Here’s why they’re still safe to eat

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A child would need to eat 9,000 cookies in a day to approach harmful levels of pesticide or naturally occurring heavy metals.

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CTC Databases

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Click on a database from the expandable listing options below and you will be directed to the log-in page. A successful log in will provide access to all databases; however, if you close the browser/end the session, you may be required to log in again. See database help for more information.
Notice: All Ebsco database subscriptions expired 8/31/23.
Contact library staff about access:
Phone: 254-526-1621 Email: Referencerequest@ctcd.edu

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Central Texas College - For Students Of The Real World

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We offer a comprehensive array of associate degree, vocational-technical, adult continuing education and high school programs in delivery formats that address virtually every need.

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A subset of the internet that includes scholarly books, articles, and reports from academic publishers, societies, and universities.

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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.

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SciCheck Focuses exclusively on false and misleading scientific claims that are made by partisans to influence public policy.

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FactCheck.org's SciCheck feature focuses exclusively on false and misleading scientific claims that are made by partisans to influence public policy. It was launched in January 2015 with a grant from the Stanton Foundation. The foundation was founded by the late Frank Stanton, president of CBS for 25 years, from 1946 to 1971.

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AllSides An unbiased site featuring news topics from around the world that includes a media-biased comparison chart that shows where the major news providers fall on a given issue.

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AllSides Headline Roundups™ bring you top news stories from the left, center and right of the political spectrum - side-by-side so you can see the full picture.

We rotate the order of headlines to avoid biasing our coverage in favor of the left, which otherwise would always be listed first.

Learn how AllSides provides balanced news

MSNBC (Left bias) announced it's canceling opinion commentator Mehdi Hasan's Sunday night show on Thursday, drawing opinions from journalists and media outlets. For Context: Hasan is known...

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AllSides | Balanced news via media bias ratings for an unbiased news perspective

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We use media bias ratings to provide balanced news, perspectives and issues across the political spectrum. Unbiased news coverage doesn't exist - there is no such thing as unbiased news or t

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FactCheck.org A nice site for fact-checking political news, especially those in which both parties are speaking at the same venue.

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A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center

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Politifact My favorite site for checking facts regarding political news that uses a very fun “truth-o-meter.”

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Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy.

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PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

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Snopes One of the most popular sites on the web to find evidenced-based news that is cited so students can do their own research as well.

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The definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.

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Student Learning Outcomes

Understand the reasons for using credible sources for research.

Apply criteria to evaluate the credibility of sources.

Search peer-reviewed academic sources in the CTC library databases.

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Search Google Scholar

Research question: How does social media use impact the self-esteem and anxiety levels of young adults?

Use these search terms: social media and mental health

1. What limiters were you able to use?

2. What were the final search results?

Now use the CRAAP test to evaluate one source:

1. What steps did you take to get through the CRAAP test?

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Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process

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Researchers apparently don't need to be real to publish in scientific journals.

Take Nicholas Zafetti of Clemson University, in South Carolina, who has at least nine publications to his name. Or Giorgos Jimenez of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with 12 papers under his belt.

Both identities seem to be bogus, according to Alexander Magazinov, a scientific sleuth and software engineer based in Kazakhstan. They add to a short but growing list of ostensibly fictitious researchers who appear as coauthors on real papers.

Continue reading What's in a name? Made-up authors are penning dozens of papers

A former PhD student at Auburn University in Alabama relabeled and reused images inappropriately in a grant application, published paper, and several presentations, a U.S. government watchdog has found.

The Office of Research Integrity says Sarah Elizabeth Martin "engaged in research misconduct by intentionally or knowingly falsifying and/or fabricating experimental data and results obtained under different experimental conditions," according to a case summary posted online.

The published paper, " The m6A landscape of polyadenylated nuclear (PAN) RNA and its related methylome in the context of KSHV replication," appeared online in advance of publication in RNA in June 2021. The journal retracted the article last year, with the following notice:

Continue reading Auburn PhD student faked data in grant application and published paper, feds say

A public health journal intends to retract an article that estimated how many unintentional pesticide poisonings happen each year worldwide, Retraction Watch has learned.

In response, the authors hired a lawyer to represent them in contesting the retraction, and maintain the journal's decision "undermines the integrity of the scientific process." This is the second time within a few months that the journal retracted an article through a process authors said was problematic.

Continue reading Authors hire lawyer as journal plans to retract their article on pesticide poisoning

Around Christmas last year, Preston Sowell received an unpleasant delivery.

An archaeologist who knew about Sowell's work in southeastern Peru sent him a paper about new findings in a particular part of the country Sowell, an independent environmental scientist, was familiar with. The paper, written by several of Sowell's former colleagues, contained a "shocking" surprise.

"I almost immediately recognized there were errors in the paper," Sowell said. "I recognised, literally with my first read, some of those artifacts."

Continue reading Archaeologists claimed old findings as their own, critic says

A large U.S. university press has stopped selling two scholarly books about the philosophers Slavoj Žižek and John Venn due to problems with how the authors cited - or didn't cite - source material.

In both cases, the University of Chicago Press stated on its website that the titles, released in 2023 and 2022, respectively, were "no longer available for sale." But only "John Venn: A Life in Logic" by Lukas M. Verburgt was " retracted," according to the publisher.

The author of the other publication - "How Slavoj Became Žižek: The Digital Making of a Public Intellectual" - told us he had been afforded a chance to fix his mistakes. These included " several insufficient, missing, or erroneous citations of source material upon which the author builds his argument," the University of Chicago Press stated.

"The publisher has given me the opportunity to correct the book and resubmit it for review," said Eliran Bar-El, a sociologist at the University of York, in England. "In light of it being an ongoing process, I cannot provide further details until there is a review outcome, which will be reflected appropriately in my publication list. At this time, I would like to genuinely thank the observant readers who have brought this to my attention."

Verburgt, whose work contains " numerous instances of insufficiently cited source material," does not appear to have been quite as lucky.

Continue reading Publisher pulls books about philosophers Žižek and Venn over citation issues

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A year after the authors of two papers contacted the marketing journal where they had been published requesting retraction, the journal has pulled one, but decided to issue a correction for the other.

In April, we reported that the Journal of Consumer Research was investigating " Super Size Me: Product Size as a Signal of Status," originally published in 2012, and " Dynamics of Communicator and Audience Power: The Persuasiveness of Competence versus Warmth," published in 2016.

The authors had asked to retract the papers in October 2022 after other researchers found inconsistencies in the statistical calculations of the "Super Size Me" paper and could not replicate the results. The article had been cited nearly 200 times, according to Clarivate's Web of Science. It attracted attention from The New York Times and NPR, among other outlets, which linked the findings to the rise in obesity in the United States. An analyst also found issues in the 2016 paper, which has been cited 71 times.

When we published our previous story, Carolyn Yoon, the chair of the journal's policy board and a professor of management and marketing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor's Stephen M. Ross School of Business, told us the board was still waiting on a report from the special committee investigating the matter. "We hope to have a decision by the end of this month," she said in April 2023.

Continue reading 'Super Size Me': What happened when marketing researchers ordered a double retraction?

A business school in Pakistan has fired a marketing professor after finding he had "damaged the repute" of the university and its scholarly journal, Retraction Watch has learned.

In a LinkedIn post, Muhammad Mohsin Butt, the now-fired professor, shared a picture of the table of contents of a 2015 issue of Business Review, published by the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), in Karachi. The contents listed seven case studies authored by two other professors at the school:

Continue reading Exclusive: Whistleblower fired after raising concerns about journal articles on LinkedIn

A radiology professor in France who plagiarized others' work in a review article has resigned from his role as deputy editor of a medical journal amid new concerns about his publications, Retraction Watch has learned.

The professor, Romaric Loffroy of CHU Dijon Bourgogne, was first and corresponding author of the offending review, which included large amounts of text from two earlier papers without appropriate citation, as we reported last month.

When confronted with evidence of the plagiarism, Loffroy put the blame on an alleged undisclosed ghostwriter, then proceeded to tone down the offense, saying he wouldn't mind it if his own work had been plagiarized.

Continue reading Exclusive: Editor caught plagiarizing resigns as more concerns emerge

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"These findings are unjustified."

That's how a biologist at the Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Chicago described the conclusions of a federal investigation that found she had faked images and inflated sample sizes in published papers and a grant application. The biologist, Hee-Jeong Im Sampen, has been banned from conducting VA research.

Sampen, also a research professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, said that "any errors that occurred involved discrete erroneously-placed figures or images" that "in no way undermine our basic conclusions and findings."

Calling the episode a "long and hard battle for me," Sampen sent us these comments:

Continue reading 'A travesty': A researcher found guilty of misconduct by federal U.S. government responds

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Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process

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Now try researching how social media use impacts the self-esteem and anxiety levels of young adults?

Use these search terms: college students and stress

Use the CRAAP test to evaluate a source:

1. What limiters were available?

2. What were your search results after limiters?

3. How easily were you able to apply the CRAAP test?

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How do you feel about using the CRAAP test as an evaluation tool for finding sources for your research papers?

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Lateral reading: an evaluation strategy that's especially helpful when searching the internet. You take the name of the website (or article, or book, or topic, etc.) you have, and search it online to see more information from others. Also known as cross-referencing which helps to verify claims, identify bias, and assess credibility.

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Alexis Johnson on Instagram: "Gary Brecka sharing the real truth on Celsius.

Lord, I’m ready for you to come back now. This world has done spun out of control.

Share to everyone you know to look for this ingredient.

I researched what he’s staying extensively and it 100% checks out.

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591 likes, 72 comments - msalexisjohnson on March 3, 2024: "Gary Brecka sharing the real truth on Celsius.

Lord, I’m ready for you to come back now. This world has done spun out of control.

Share to everyone you know to look for this ingredient.

I researched what he’s staying extensively and it 100% checks out.

#celsius #celsiuslivefit #celsiusofficial #garybrecka #medicine #letfoodvbeyourmedicine #poopwater #toxic #toxicfreeliving #nontoxic #biohack #biohacker #truth #truthhurts #10x #10xrule #10xgrowthcon #synthetic #poison". 

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Monster and Celsius Energy Drinks Have Unhealthy Levels of Cyanide?

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A viral video claimed energy drinks contained a highly toxic substance.

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Q: Some social media users have made negative claims around cyanocobalamin and celsius. Is there any validity to these claims?

A:

No. These claims are untrue and the source of the claims has removed all videos where the claims are made. Specifically, Gary Brecka, the man who made the claims, stated: “This was a mis-quote and is not accurate. These videos have subsequently been taken down voluntarily as a result of this statement not being accurate.” Mr. Brecka recanted in the following video and clarified that Celsius is completely safe:

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MLA 9 Quick Style Guide

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MLA Quick Style Guide Brochure -1-15-2025

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Where do you usually get your daily information and how do you evaluate its credibility?

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Where do you usually get your daily information and how do you evaluate its credibility?

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APA 7 Quick Style Guide