Today's delightful find in @gwern's treasure chambers: the importance of Leprechaun hunting if you want to be a good scholar. I admit to having being taken in by a few of these.https://www.gwern.net/Scanners#leprechaun-hunting-and-historical-context …
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The reason is to spread awareness that this is an academic urban legend (making others less likely to do the mistake). If we just leave out correcting common misconceptions they will remain tenaciously common. With correction, they will show up too, but at a lower rate.
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The main limiting factor of this kind of academic legends is likely the exponential fall-off of citation over time and generational shifts: the final nail for disproven claims is not the disproof but when accidental references cease.
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