...by actually reviewing the citations and noticing they do not, at all, support the claims she made.
> ...such extensive checks...
The checks didn't need to be extensive, they needed to be cursory. The problem is they were absent because the reviewers enjoyed the same political bent as the author of the paper.
The same way this guy wrote the thorough debunking of the paper: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/rp5ae/
...by actually reviewing the citations and noticing they do not, at all, support the claims she made.
> ...such extensive checks...
The checks didn't need to be extensive, they needed to be cursory. The problem is they were absent because the reviewers enjoyed the same political bent as the author of the paper.