Misuse of Footnotes

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Footnotes are great, but can be badly misused.1

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For instance this entry is almost entirly a footnote. Also it has footnotes within footnotes 2.

It is at this point that I should explain the origns and aims of this entry. It started with a previous article I wrote3 that had a lot of footnotes4 that I needed help to get rid of before it gets spotted.5So this entry has a couple of basic aims; 6

As you10can see excessive use of Footnotes11 makes things hard to read.

122such as this one3Nuclear Medicine Imaging4225Not yet happened6
  1. To give advice on bad use of footnotes
  2. To live the problem rather than explain it
  3. To highlight how bad a footnote can be
  4. To be a bit of fun7
7This is not a serious candidate for the EG88Edited Guide99Hey look a footnote in a footnote in a footnote in a footnote1011Like this one12For examplethis article.

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