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Petesmom 1d ago

Telling people to “do your own research” when in reality it means embracing disinformation from uncredentialed wellness grifters trying to peddle non-proven alternatives, and ignoring decades of rigorous peer-reviewed work from scientific experts, will kill people.

Darrin West 1d ago

@luckytran I don’t think Karen is going to pass the ethics review for her double blind rat study.

@obviousdwest @luckytran I run all my own double blind studies from the comfort of my own toilet. Sometimes I close both eyes, hence, double blind!!!

My Head’s Exploding 🤯 💥1d ago

@luckytran Then what the hell are we paying federal taxes for when you do your own research. MY research tells me to get rid of brain-worms.

ethagnawl 1d ago

@luckytran I've never seen that line of reasoning put so succinctly. Bravo.

Chance 'Um 1d ago

@ethagnawl @luckytran I came into the comments to express the same sentiment. Well said.

raganwald 🍓1d ago

@luckytran “Science is just like, your opinion, man.”
—America under King Trump

Nobody ناچیز नास्ति (he/him)1d ago

Do your own research:

Step 1: get a PhD
Step 2: work in the industry to get experience and leadership KSA
Step 3: set up your own lab
Step 4: hire other qualified researchers
Step 5: direct them to study what you need studied
Step 6: submit for peer review
Step 7: review validated information
Step 8: make your informed decision

Right now, we have delegated steps 1 thorough 7 to scientists, in government, universities and corporations.

Yes, do your own research. Lol

Neil E. Hodges 1d ago

@luckytran "Why risk injections when you could just rub crystals on yourself?" :P

@tk @luckytran It's not like botulinum toxin has ever hurt anyone⸮

(Yes, it crystallizes.)

Jim Sullivan 1d ago

@luckytran No honey, we pay your salary with our tax dollars so YOU will do the research and share what you've learned with us. If you don't want to do the job you were hired to do, then resign and go the F away.

Jessamyn 1d ago

@luckytran Well said. As a librarian, even I know I am treading dangerously when I do my own research. When nearly anyone who is NOT a library worker, scientist, or otherwise skilled practitioner of the specialty area being researched wants to do their own research, they should start with one of those people if at all possible.

Derail: I feel like post-9/11 in the US there was a shift where saying "research" meant "googling" from which we have not fully recovered.

@jessamyn @luckytran Yeah, a huge issue is folk understanding what they are reading. Context, control groups, how to parse good science & well done studies from bad.

Impish4249 1d ago

@jessamyn @luckytran

I agree with both of you and, sadly, am going to up the ante. AI search will likely make this far worse since

1) consumer grade LLMs are trained on random text snarfed up from the internet

2) the results are thought of by the masses as "intelligent" because of the name "Artificial Intelligence" when in reality the answers from those consumer AIs are a statistical prediction of the next logical word to print. That prediction is weighted on the mumbo jumbo from 1) above

Chris Mackay 🇨🇦1d ago

@jessamyn @hannu_ikonen @luckytran A superset of this problem is that people think Google search results are somehow vetted; that they’re the truth — that they’re facts, not opinions.

In the immortal words of Luthen Rael in the face of such naïveté: “how nice for you.”

@jessamyn @luckytran
And now there is something that very confidently asserts with absolutely no ambiguity that the auto complete answer is right unless you firmly disagree at which point it will pick another completely random answer to be very confident in.

And people are regularly calling this 'research'.

@luckytran just take the damn medicine people. you aren't more knowledgable than scientists about science stuff. none of these vaccines should be optional if you want to live among us.

@luckytran Do your own research*

*Because in the future there will be no funding for any actual research, so you better start yourself today if you want to know something.

@luckytran Yes, parents who get mad that doctors don't use words they can understand should totally be expected to digest vaccine research on their own

@feld @luckytran If they're willing to truly put in the effort to do their own research, which does mean indeed learning the field & understanding (and contributing, possibly), then I indeed see no problem.

If they're whiny assholes unwilling to put in the effort, then they do not get to pretend they are doing the research.

Karsten Johansson 1d ago

@luckytran So today's American Science is "We won't teach you the scientific method, but read all the Google Spam to figure out science on your own."

What a buffoon. The next generation of US Americans will be so stupid compared to everyone else in the world.

@ksaj @luckytran I mean, the current population is already incredibly stupid.
The whole world is watching and thinking "How could a whole country be this dumb?"

@luckytran I don’t need to do my own research. Trained scientist have already done acedemic research and I trust their’s over anyone else’s.

@luckytran Doing your own research basically comes down to one thing; to ignore the utterings of Kennedy.

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 1d ago

@luckytran My usual response to being told to "do my own research" is:

(1) I'm not qualified. (I gave up my PhD course after one year and have no subsequent academic training.)

(2) I don't have the funding or resources. (Money, labs, staff, kit, whatever.)

MidgePhoto 1d ago

@luckytran
It doesn't scale well.
Either.

David Grieve 1d ago

@luckytran
If their own research involves a medical degree as a minimum that would be sound advice.
What he is really saying is, go watch some shite on YouTube.

AnnieBuddy 1d ago

Yes, ignore the experts who spent years learning crazy amounts of information about a very specific thing and were tested on that knowledge by others who also spent years learning about that thing and sometimes they don't agree, and when they don't, they tested their differences and replicated findings to ensure they're using the best information available.

Social media influencers have opinions, based on feelings. They have "freedom of speech" to protect lies. Ads have more rules.

Tom DB 🦣1d ago

@luckytran He reveals a lack of basic understanding of a lot of other stuff as well actually…😐

Juliamon 1d ago

@luckytran If he wants us to be doing our own research, he should be paying us, like we were to the scientists before. CITIZENS ARE NOT FREE LABOR.

James 🌈💜1d ago

There's already kids with Vitamin A toxicity showing up.

@luckytran @rossgrady For that crowd, it’s a feature, not a bug.

@luckytran "Do your own research" says head of government health research

Ultra Verified 1d ago

It probably killed hundreds of thousands from COVID alone, by those listening to Trump and other crackpots telling people to inject bleach and take horse dewormer.

#RepublicansDidThis

@luckytran If they truly knew how to "do their own research" they would already be not believing this crap.

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ Persists 1d ago

@luckytran MAHA : Make America Have (measles, polio, mumps, whooping cough, scarlet fever, COVID, influenza) Again

Catherine is not giving up.1d ago

@luckytran Dr Phil, who isn’t even a doctor.
American is a reality show.

bipolaron 1d ago

@luckytran It is so frustrating that the publications they need to do their own research, largely funded by tax dollars, are sitting behind a paywall far too expensive for a new parent (or pretty much any individual).

Chris Green 1d ago

@luckytran Search string no one "doing their own research" on vaccines will ever type into youtube: Introduction to virology lecture.

humourmetom 1d ago

@luckytran In all fairness, RFK did his own research on rainworms

@luckytran Can we inject him with things for testing? Because that would be a reasonable response.

listless 1d ago

@luckytran well another way to look at it is that this is good news, it'll kill the stupid people.

Darth Osler 1d ago

@luckytran but a 3rd order effect plausibly is a resurgent appreciation of education and specialization

contrasocial 1d ago

RFK should "do his own research" of the effects of jumping off a nine story building.

"If you take a bunch of low-quality studies and lump them together into a meta-analysis that purports to give a rigorous answer, it’s the research equivalent of money laundering. You are taking bad evidence and converting it into (the appearance of) rigorous evidence."

https://goodscience.substack.com/p/the-research-on-fluoride-and-iq

#HHS #Health #Science #RFK #Trump

The Research on Fluoride and IQ

Robert F.

The Good Science Project

JustRosy 🇺🇦1d ago

@luckytran Ironically, I did "do my own research" but with actually giving a F about real science at the same time, and concluded that it was safer to have vaccines than to go without them. Who woulda thunk...

@luckytran "Not my job."

@luckytran @touaregtweet Well when the trusted party is led by Kenndy, who can you trust?

Kristin (vis.social Admin)1d ago

@luckytran When I had colon cancer, while already on a healthy diet, did I go to a 'wellness consultant'?

Fuck no! I went for surgery at UCSF, to remove my stage 3 cancer tumor. I am only alive today, because of the Scientifically sound treatment I received. And still receive

In addition to this medical treatment, I also maintain my healthy diet, and exercise.

But it was Cancer Research and treatment that saved me from what I was already experiencing as an excruciatingly painful death.

Kristin (vis.social Admin)1d ago

@luckytran By the way, my one-year anniversary of my life-saving cancer surgery just passed.

A year ago, today, I was recently home from a major abdominal surgery that removed about a foot of my large intestine, in addition to the tumor.

Just getting out of bed was a major physical effort. Walking down the block and back, was a major effort.

But slowly, I got stronger.

And it was only possible because of Science based treatment and surgery.

If I relied on my diet? I'd be dead now.

@luckytran How am I suppose to do research on vaccines and viruses with economics education? I personally leave the researching to people who spent decades studying this field and working on research themselves. Because you know, they are qualified for that kind of research. Then we are given a summary of their findings and I just make an informed decision based on that. That's not "research of my own" that's just informed decision making. Big difference.

Peter Brown 1d ago

@luckytran who needs scientists?
Why have decades and decades of research on vaccines and public health when you can Google it yourself? 🤡

@luckytran A retreat into superstition and ignorance, previously easily treatable maladies turn into life-threatening illnesses and all because your "research" thinks horse dewormer will solve it.

Sue Nethercott 20h ago

@luckytran I've done my own researdh into the requirements for a United States Secretary of Health and Human Services and he is grossly unqualified.

JamesTDG 16h ago

@luckytran it's honestly funny, these people who got their degrees through hard work and a shitload of student debt are in the eyes of these idiots, not experts.

I trust someone who survived the hell of college indefinitely more than some jackass who thinks shoving quartz up your ass cures Autism.