I do this a lot too, but I noticed that often comments (on reddit especially) get it wrong a lot of the time too. I used to go straight to the comments, and th

I do this a lot too, but I noticed that often comments (on reddit especially) get it wrong a lot of the time too. I used to go straight to the comments, and there would always be some highly up-voted post countering the article, by someone claiming to work/have knowledge of the field, and I would usually believe that more then the article. However then when a topic comes round which I do have actual knowledge on, I notice that often the article gets it wrong, and the counter-comments get it equally wrong. Nowadays I try to make myself read the article before going to the comments, and take the counter-points also with a huge grain of salt. I only have opinions in topics I directly work in, the rest of the world is too complicated.