Scientists show how ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies — This effect arises because of the quality of information churned out by Google’s search engine::Researchers found that people searching misinformation online risk falling into “data voids” that increase belief in conspiracies.

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    11 months ago

    I see a lot of hate against the concept of doing one’s own research on the internet and it really bothers me.

    Yeah you also see people saying “trust the science!” as if science is infallible, every scientist agrees, and no science is financially motivated. They will posit that “it’s literally a fact!”. But that’s not how science works. It was “literally a fact” that the Earth was flat for centuries until it was disproven.