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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    10 months ago

    The modern day “do your own research means find whatever supports your confirmation bias”. However, I feel like there’s a lot of discouragement against a healthy skepticism as well, which is… not healthy either.

    • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      For every opinion that exists there’s someone on social media who will dedicate paragraphs to telling you why that opinion is stupid and you’re a bad person for having it.