When I first used the IDD research method back in 2013/14, I disproved the Darwin supermyth lie that no one at all / no naturalist had read Matthew's (1831) book (containing the original theory of macro evolution by natural selection) before Darwin and Wallace (1858/59) plagiarised it.
The powerful IDD method detected that Darwin's and Wallace's primary influencers and friends, and their friend's' friends, and even Wallace's Sarawak paper editor Selby (an original highly important discovery later
plagiarised by Dagg), had cited it!
For the detailed facts on who did cite Matthew pre-1858 see Sutton "
Nullius in Verba: Darwin's greatest secret"
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In
our paper on the IDD method, Professor Mark Griffiths and I noted that since the introduction of the autonomous artificial intelligence deep learning RankBrain to run Google books that the IDD method was finding much less than it did in 2014/14.
Yesterday, RankBrain (a bot) actually asked me if I am a bot when I used the IDD method.
Today, 27 June 2020 the IDD method could detect, besides the scathing Edinburgh Literary Review, and the positive Metropolitan Magazine review, and John Loudon's most famous 1832 review (which most tellingly said Matthew had something orignal to say on "the origin of species" no less), and the Quarterly Review article on dry rot, just a handful of pre-1859 books and other publications that mention Matthew's 1831 book. But these others do so only by way of advertisements for it, Advertisements are not even included in my above list of citations. Luckily I did the original 2014/14 IDD research when I did. The jealous and sneaky plagiarist Dr Dagg would never have been able to plagiarise my Selby discovery otherwise!
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