The way "do research" has been dumbed down in the present day is... making me wish I had a different word for what I do. Anti-vaxxers and the like with their "do your research" even though their "research" is only finding random information online that agrees with them,
regardless of the accuracy of said information.
Exhibit A: an opinion piece in a newspaper.
Exhibit B: a peer-reviewed academic publication.
Exhibit C: information you collected by going to the source/ creating new studies.
Which one of these is less reliable?
Exhibit A: an opinion piece in a newspaper.
Exhibit B: a peer-reviewed academic publication.
Exhibit C: information you collected by going to the source/ creating new studies.
Which one of these is less reliable?
The problem is the anti-vaxxers probably aren't seeing the academic research, and they don't have the training to create a new study-- so they just read newspaper opinion pieces until they find something that agrees with them.
This is why national education spending &
This is why national education spending &
open access academic/scientific publications are so important. We have to get rid of paywalls around information.
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