Misinformation is widespread in political discourse, mental health literature, and hard science. This article describes recurrent publication of the same misinformation regarding parental alienation (PA), that is, variations of the statement: “PA theory assumes that the favored parent has caused PA in the child simply because the child refuses to have a relationship with the rejected parent, without identifying or proving alienating behaviors by the favored parent.” Ninety-four examples of the same misinformation were identified and subjected to citation analysis using Gephi software, which displays the links between citing material and cited material. The recurrent misinformation reported here is not trivial; these statements are significant misrepresentations of PA theory. Plausible explanations for this trail of misinformation are the psychological mindset of the authors (i.e., confirmation bias) and the authors' writing skills (e.g., sloppy research practices such as persistent use of secondary sources for their information). The authors of this article recommend that publications containing significant misinformation should be corrected or retracted.

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学术谣言：有关父母疏远理论的大量错误信息的引文分析

错误信息在政治话语、心理健康文献和硬科学中广泛存在。本文描述了有关父母异化（PA）的相同错误信息的反复发表，即该陈述的变体：“PA理论认为，受宠的父母仅仅因为孩子拒绝与被拒绝的父母建立关系而导致了孩子的PA”的父母，而无需识别或证明受宠父母的疏远行为。” 识别出了 94 个相同错误信息的例子，并使用 Gephi 软件进行了引文分析，该软件显示了引用材料和被引材料之间的链接。这里反复报道的错误信息并非无足轻重。这些陈述是对 PA 理论的重大歪曲。对这种错误信息的合理解释是作者的心理心态（即确认偏差）和作者的写作技巧（例如，草率的研究实践，例如持续使用二手资料来获取信息）。本文的作者建议纠正或撤回包含重大错误信息的出版物。