>show my draft thesis to my research mentor
>says it's really good but it needs more citations
>I ask him what it's missing and why it needs more
>he says it just needs more, better papers have more citations
Remind me why I need to do a lit review of a bunch of drooling retards who can't even form a unique thought and whose papers are just syntheses of a hundred other papers? I can't even read a modern research paper without physical pain because literally every sentence has 1-3 citations. I remember when scientists wrote entire volumes with their own ideas. I am sick of academia and its garbage