[ifyoubuildit]

There's a good standup bit out there: we used to have a word for "doing your own research": reading! Now everyone gives you shit for it.

[archagon]

Reading is worthless if you don't vet your sources. Encyclopedia Britannica and Uncle Johnny's Chemtrail Digest are not equally valid sources of truth.

[ifyoubuildit]

And there's the actual hard part: institutional trustworthiness is in the shitter. Everyone will have their sources that they trust, and if were honest, none of us can really vet any of them.

A lot of these disputes can be simplified to "I don't trust your sources".