Continuing a popular trend among mainstream media since the Covid pandemic hit the world, The Washington Post on Wednesday warned people against doing their own research.
Any person or group that advises you to blindly take the word of the established “professionals” and “experts” instead of researching the issues yourself is not your friend.
The WAPO The headline reads: “Doing your own research is a good way to end up being wrong.”
The article examined a research paper published by affiliates of the University of Central Florida, New York University, and Stanford.
The study concluded that when individuals look further into “fake news articles,” they are actually more likely to ultimately believe them.
Of course, the paper doesn’t address the possibility that people who did the extra work found good reasons to believe the so-called “fake news” stories.
It also appears that some news reports labeled as “false or misleading” by the researchers were factually accurate.
One article used in the study as an alleged example of a fake news story was an article from 2020 Infowars report on Australian bushfires.
Listed as the ninth heading used in the study is the Infowars The article entitled ‘Nearly 200 people arrested across Australia for deliberately starting bushfires’ was labeled ‘False/Misleading’ by the researchers.
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However, even a Snopes article When “fact-checking,” the four-year-old Infowars report essentially admitted it was true while using semantics to call the claims “false.”
Snopes claimed: “The Alex Jones conspiracy site InfoWars wrongly reported that ‘nearly 200 people’ have been arrested in Australia for ‘deliberately’ starting bushfires.”
Then the “fact-check” piece admitted: “Police in New South Wales have a rack showing that since November 8, 2019, 183 people, including 40 young people, have been charged with 205 bushfire-related crimes.”
However, the article argued: “Of the 183, 24 people have been charged deliberately lighting fires. According to police, of the 183, a further ’53 people have taken legal action for allegedly failing to comply with a total fire ban’, and another ’47 people have taken legal action for allegedly throwing away a lit cigarette or match on the land .’ ”
Snopes was very attached to the word “intentional,” but neglected to mention the source cited in the Infowars article, the Brisbane timeswrote: “Figures obtained by AAP (Australian Associated Press) revealed that police had treated 98 people – 31 adults and 67 youths – for deliberately setting fires,” a number that grew over time.
Another article that the study found to be “false or misleading” was a Gateway expert report about trans activists targeting Olympic cyclist Inga Thompson.
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At number 13 in the survey is the headline: “Trans Activists Target Olympic Cyclist Inga Thompson for Saying Women Don’t Have to Compete With Biological Males.”
Although the collegiate authors claimed the article was ‘misleading’, the receipts are all still in the paper Gateway expert‘s publication.
Transgender activists and their allies flooded Thompson’s Twitter with criticism and even created a petition to have her removed from the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (OBRA).
Ultimately, the American women’s cycling team Cynisca Cycling eventually removed Thompson from the board due to the ordeal.
The WashingtonPost This article isn’t the first time a major mainstream media outlet has told Americans to stop doing their own research.
In 2020, Forbes headedwhere he reads, “You shouldn’t ‘do your own research’ when it comes to science.”
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In 2021, CNNs Brian Stelter told his audience that America’s “own investigation” was “damaging the U.S. response to the pandemic.”
Stelter also aired a video clip of “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah,” in which the ex-host also complained about citizens watching news stories themselves.
In an article with the above video embedded in it, CNN wrote: “How ‘Do Your Own Research’ Is Hurting America’s Covid Response.”
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The New York Times published a similar article in 2021 telling readers that “critical thinking” “does not help in the fight against disinformation.”
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That same year, USA today claimed‘browsing books can lead down’ an ‘extremist rabbit hole’.
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A 2022 New York Times part titled: “Skeptics say: ‘Do your own research.’ It’s not that simple,” claiming telling people to do their own research was “a new slogan” that had “emerged in the culture.”
Of course, since the beginning of written language, people have been told to look at events for themselves.
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Another one in 2023 Forbes The headline read: “Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Can Make You Believe Fake News.”
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Vice News also repeated the story in 2023 they write: “Scientists explain why ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing in conspiracies.”
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In 2016 former CNN host Chris Cuomo, brother of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, claimed it was “illegal” for citizens to “own” the Wikileaks emails and instead rely on the media’s interpretation of the documents .
It’s a huge red flag that the establishment is telling citizens to shut up and obey them without questioning any official narratives.
Truth peddlers will always empower the individuals seeking honesty, as Alex Jones did in the viral RT interview below.
“Don’t believe a word I say, read Klaus Schwab who says we will soon have everyone take brain chips – he said it five years ago on French TV – and go investigate everything I said,” he told the audience.