When I was earning my M.A. in Religious Studies I noted that my professors would not accept any kind of knowledge from "dubious" sources, pretty much in the same way that the Vatican would canonize only the beatified whose lives had been thoroughly investigated and found to be impeccable. As such, many of these sources were excluded from bibliographic listings and footnotes.
Sometimes this does not make sense to me, because, to me, it is the content and quality of knowledge and information that really counts. The persons who convey such knowledge and information are mere conduits.
The litmus tests are truthfulness and truth. That professors have strong biases about these is truly dubious to me.
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