Doing your own research also means being open to the possibility that your hypothesis is incorrect.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    All those processes described there (and more, such as double blind experiments, peer reviews and so on) were invented and are used even though it would be less effort to not use them exactly because “professional researchers and academics are blinkered by biases or sometimes have financial motives to publish certain things” and those in that domain recognized it and concluded they had to do create tools to clean up their sources of those things as much as possible.

    And, guess what, people who are NOT professional researchers and academics, also often “are blinkered by biases or sometimes have financial motives to publish certain things” (in fact certain groups of those people, such as politicians, are almost totally driven by money and biases in what they say and write) and those very same processes also work for filtering biased and money-driven writings and speeches of people who aren’t in Science.

    You seen, what you got in that post was a box of tools to enable you to validate your sources, any sources, and your response was raging against being given tools by going “whatabout scientists”.

    One can only conclude that you like your sources with “biases and published with financial motives”.