Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Jacob Barnett" in French language version.
« The hype around Jacob – that he has created an original theory in astrophysics worthy of the Nobel Prize, that his IQ is higher than Einstein’s, and that his genius can only be nurtured in a university environment despite his young age – dissipates upon skeptical inquiry. […] In public perception, high IQ plus mysterious mathematical talents plus the image of a young person at the university plus very spurious claims about a potentially Nobel Prize winning original theory all feed into the preexisting Amadeus myth. »