>I tried to explain how it used to be easier to find information from good-faith experts, but I don’t think I really got the point across. Let me try again. It

>I tried to explain how it used to be easier to find information from good-faith experts, but I don’t think I really got the point across. Let me try again. It's shocking to me how quick this changed as well. >Back in 1999, few people had figured out how to take advantage of search engines that way. Even basic rules like "mandatoryterm" or -dontshowterm were super powerful but don't even bother with that today. It'll just make your results worse. >Worse, the weirdo specialists have a harder time finding each other. The trick now is to use a better search engine. It's rare that I use google for search. >What I know for sure is that when I read academic work published in 2014, I’m pretty likely roll my eyes and mutter about how no serious person would even bother with this crap and set it aside, Author doesn't know about the 2005 conflict of interest legislation; infringing on freedom of speech technically but nobody is arguing for anything else. Medicine and social sciences has gone through a massive upheaval over this. You dont hear much about violent video games activists anymore because after the social science had to start declaring their conflict of interest the movement died. Entirely because better science displaced it. Cholesterol being a bad thing is also a shocking change since 2005. It turns out a great deal of the science that said it was bad was pre-2005 and now since conflict of interests must be declared, dietary cholesterol basically doesnt matter. It turns out the cereal companies published false science to blame cholesterol for what they were causing. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/dietary-cholesterol-does-not-matter https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/dietary-cholesterol-doe...