Pith Number

pith:SMYL5PRE

pith:2018:SMYL5PRERZ5XTMY27GRQEAINS2

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How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policy Makers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks

Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall, Justin Bruner

arxiv:1801.01239 v2 · 2018-01-04 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SMYL5PRERZ5XTMY27GRQEAINS2}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:07:50.191944Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9330bebe248e7b79b31af9a302010d969259fa8f5c6993c8993ad607f7127801

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.01239 · arxiv_version: 1801.01239v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.01239 · pith_short_12: SMYL5PRERZ5X · pith_short_16: SMYL5PRERZ5XTMY2 · pith_short_8: SMYL5PRE

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SMYL5PRERZ5XTMY27GRQEAINS2 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 9330bebe248e7b79b31af9a302010d969259fa8f5c6993c8993ad607f7127801

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d39df16c7c3f253f2b3857c326d375d53b5a239c4a7f4565e7386aecb85c421",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-04T04:00:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f76a90a70b39fa0e472b6af9f1f87428ab8710ed631a58586c83a3b0ea6cf986"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.01239",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}