This post is jointly authored by Rob Sica and me.1 Rob is a Humanities & Social Sciences Librarian at Colorado State. Given that social scientists cannot adequately vet scholarship in their own fields? Librarians to the rescue! Wooden Stake Essays are ones in which I (or, in this case, Rob, Claude, and I — “who is Claude,” you ask? Read on) debunk claims in some published scholarship (killing the vampires that suck the blood out of social science). This is hard, time-consuming work.