Unfortunately, the general populace does not understand that finding evidence in support of a conclusion is not equivalent to doing scientific research. Never m

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...