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Aren't the lunatics in this context the ones who refuse to get a vaccine because they "did their own research"?

• api 5y ago
  I did my own research. I read about mRNA vaccines, looked up how they worked, searched for credible safety data, etc. I decided to get the vaccine and thought the tech was rather cool. The problem isn’t doing your own research. It’s failing to understand or discern and falling for sensationalism. You have to either know enough to understand the primary material or know enough about the nature of expertise to discern who likely knows what they are talking about. If you can’t do one of those things then you’re better off not trying to do your own research.
  • arcanon 5y ago
    Reading about things isn’t doing your own research. Thats not what research is. Research should involve an experiment of some kind or getting new data. You are not doing anything close to science.
    • api 5y ago
      Okay, call it reading people who do research then.