This being the Internet doesn't help. My personal favorites in this regard are a poster who claimed that Walt Whitman was gay, on the basis that a Google search of walt+whitman+gay turned-up thousands of hits. I discovered that one of Whitman's biographers had the surname Gay. After I pointed that out, he dug deeper and found a grad student's term paper claiming the same.
Or the time some other bloke, when challenged, "found" a Power-Point presentation, AND CITED IT AS A SOURCE.
Just this morning, I nailed some "scholar" citing to an abstract of an article otherwise unavailable on the Web, that HE ADMITTED TO NOT HAVING READ.
In the hand of a feeble mind, Google is dangerous.
It is not a crime to not know something, but some people act like it is a crime to admit it. As far as I'm concerned, I'm here to learn stuff, not run my mouth. That's why I don't post much anymore unless the subject is airplanes, the military or war strategy. I even get those wrong on occasion. There is another thread where some genius is calling Bush a 'weak fool' of all things, for leaving a word out of a speech, as though Bush would have used the word, had the Freeper only called him up and told him what to do. I think sometimes we forget who we are, and that the president might not need our help ALL the time in order to get it right.