The links are self-evident in the story. They are the places where words or groups of words are underlined (known in the modern world as a hyperlink). They are throughout Maevyn's essay. They look like this:

This is not a formal research article with numbered references at the end — hyperlinks are the common way that less formal citation is done now. Click on the word (or words) that are underlined to be taken directly to the source material.

If you prefer not to encounter a more aggressive tone, perhaps you shouldn’t set it by treating others that way in the first place. Insinuating that I’m not interacting in good faith and that I’m making up statistics is not the way to begin a civil debate. Neither is casting aspersions that have no basis in actual fact that you clearly have never researched or investigated and simply wish to throw around for spite.

Manners tend to garner civility; antagonism and misogony tend to garner a less cordial tone.