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“doing your own research.” The battle cry of the scientific illiterate.

• otabdeveloper4 5y ago
  Let me get this straight, so doing experiments is "not science", while trusting Authority is real science? I don't know what to say.
  • brnt 5y ago
    Unfortunately, the general populace does not understand that finding evidence in support of a conclusion is not equivalent to doing scientific research. Never mind evaluation of the science within publications. Never mind that often people find secondary sources (oneliners extracted from summaries from news post from press releases from groups writing the actual paper). In practice, "doing your own research" is never that, at least from what I have seen. This pandamic had a special effect on my opinion I should add...
    • otabdeveloper4 5y ago
      Bad science is still science. "Trust the Authority" is not science at all. Bad science >> no science.
      • brnt 5y ago
        Unnuanced statements are never correct or useful.