Do your own research

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This is something that a lot of people say: "Do your own research", whether it's health or vaccines or whatever else. If you're a lay person, it's really hard, right: we really don't know what we're doing and we're probably going to fuck it up."

Do your own research!" is a not unusual phrase utilized by conspiracy theorists and pseudoscience promoters of various creeds in response to folks that are skeptical of their claims. This phrase is a form of the break out hatch (Argumentum advert googlam) utilized by a charlatan who desires to win the argument but does no longer want to undergo the burden of proof. Typically by using this, they generally tend not to be suggesting you really examine through papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals—nah, they're evil, huge authorities shills—nor are they suggesting you behavior unique studies; Professor Google affords all the info needed. Some specify YouTube is the important thing to all your "studies" (Argumentum advert YouTube).

If you must have recourse to a few real books (how elitist!), stick with the likes of Kevin Trudeau and Alex Jones. It need to additionally be cited that many "studies" web sites are simply copied from each different, making finding actual "unique" assets very difficult. Ultimately, the "argument" boils down to "do your own studies, from my list of self-accredited assets."

Ironically, accomplishing actual, thorough studies from vetted and dependable assets is the satisfactory way to debunk conspiracy theories; this is going in large part left out by using their advocates. It's commonly used when evidence is debunked too, as some people aren't mature sufficient to confess that they are wrong.[2]

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It's commonly used when evidence is debunked too, as some people aren't mature sufficient to confess that they are wrong

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3 years ago

conspiracy here and everywhere,some people believe of what they do ...its hard to find the real reason.

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3 years ago