In mathematics, this is known as “proof by circularity”, and is partly where I got the idea for this comic (from someone else).
However, my real motivation came from the fact that I was looking at the literature for a specific topic, and I kept on seeing the same few papers being referenced. I was hoping to find something new, but I couldn’t seem to break this “bubble” of citations.
Published on February 24th, 2020 by Jeremy