False dichotomy. Get advice from a 2nd-hand source who has collected a bunch of 1st-hand sources and done analysis on them. Same reason Wikipedia doesn't like

False dichotomy. Get advice from a 2nd-hand source who has collected a bunch of 1st-hand sources and done analysis on them. Same reason Wikipedia doesn't like primary sources; being a primary source doesn't mean you're correct. [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_using_primary_sources#%22Primary%22_does_not_mean_%22bad%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_usin...