[matai_kolila]

One implication of "do your own research" is the forced assumption that, once the research has been completed, the person will inevitably arrive at the same conclusion you did.

What would you think if someone did "do their research", but based on that investigation concluded something fundamentally different from you?

[fortuna86]

When people say they "did their own research", they are referring to a process of self-indoctrination based on a strong confirmation bias to "find" evidence in what they already believe to be true.

[tablespoon]

>> Do you have any evidence for that? That's an extraordinarily strong claim, and would need evidence much stronger than "here's a cherry-picked set of articles I'm interpreting like tea leaves."

> Given your near 10,000 comments in the time since you signed up literally on the day Russia invaded the Ukraine, I suspect you have the time to do your own homework.

Making a extraordinarily strong claim, then expecting others to prove it for you, is a pretty strong indication you do not have evidence for it.

I won't mention the other glaring errors in your one-sentence comment, since they've already been called out.

[actionfromafar]

One year before Russia invaded Ukraine.

[tablespoon]

> One year before Russia invaded Ukraine.

And I also think he misread my karma score as comment count.

[ginko]

Didn't know Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2021.