Introductions to academic papers will be like "everyone knows that the sea is cold (citation), as well as salty (5 different citations). Things live in there (citation) and the environment is important to that (2 citations)"
let me be clear when i say that this is objectively a good thing btw. not everyone who opens the paper is gonna be on the same level even if some of these things are obvious and from a narrative stand point or whatever it works as a baseline before you start yapping about your thing to get everyone on the level.
also like. we thought that nothing lived in the deep sea until the 1860s (edward forbes azoic hypothesis). maybe theres a vampire who hasn't caught up yet
















