re: #201 Cato the Elder

You could make the same claim about the Kinsey Report, which is still cited in fresh work today, because everybody else has cited it since it first appeared. Even though it’s largely discredited.

Numerous or even numberless citations prove nothing. If they did, all the citations throughout the millennia of “thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Ex. 22:18) would tend to prove that witches exist and ought to be executed.

QED

NO Cato not really at all. Not in the physical sciences. If there is a totally discredited paper still getting references after any period of time, it is as a null result.