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.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    Sending everyone off to Google is a terrible discussion culture and should be moderated away.

    I use and recommend scholar.google.com, it’s basically a search engine tailored to scientific research only. Some of it can be difficult to digest, though.

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      11 months ago

      Most questions were not suitable for scientific publication. Also there are pretty bad studies on the regular.