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      You don’t realize how much blatantly incorrect information gets put out there until the topic is something you actually know a lot about.

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      Not when you don’t call it research and just say “I read about what scientist X has to say about topic Y, isn’t that interesting?” It’s not “I did my own research and here’s the true facts!” The latter is usually about shoring up your preconceived notions anyway.

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      YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT THIS CONSERVATIVE/LIBERAL POLITICIAN SAID! Spoiler alert: whatever it says they said, they probably didn’t say.

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      Does chatgpt do bigoted stupidity yet? For some reason doing your own research seems to mean digging through the swamp and finding people that are even more stupid and hateful than the “researcher”

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        Some studies point out that it became a little “dumber” lately (for maths, AFAIK), so… maybe?