Students will analyze article excerpts that demonstrate how the opioid crisis was fueled by a five-sentence "letter to the editor" that was uncritically cited as "evidence" that opioid addiction was rare. Indirectly this activity demonstrates why ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence platforms should never be cited as sources of credible evidence--they rarely identify the source of their output, rendering information verification nearly impossible. Overall, this exercise underscores the importance of reading firsthand sources when citing information rather than assuming secondhand source citations are accurate. Courses: Methods, Theory, Research, Communication Literacy. Objectives: Students will (1) analyze evidence for the necessity of diligence when citing sources, (2) evaluate how inattention to detail can lead to the distortion and misinterpretation of an original source, and (3) understand why they should independently find and read original sources rather than relying on secondhand or indirect sources.