What’s wrong with “doing your own research”?
It requires expertise in the area you’re researching.
Confirmation bias, misplaced trust, limited knowledge, & overconfidence is the perfect storm for being misled.
Instead, trust the expert consensus.
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The blog provides better info but the Twitter character limit doesn't really allow a good explanation for where and how one would find this "expert consensus", since going to Google Scholar and finding an open-access meta-analysis is unlikely.Mass-media doesn't help much either.
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Ugh the character limit.
I wrote a follow-up post on how to find the expert consensus:
#ScienceForLife
: How to do your own research
Learn how to “do your own research” without going down the rabbit hole of misinformation.
#DoYourOwnResearch
#Experts
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Scientist
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: "Poor bugger. Why wouldn't he just put on a hazmat suit?"
Scientist
#2
: "I don't know. He kept babbling something about 'freedom' and 'doing his own research'. Very odd."
(with apologies to The Andromeda Strain)
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