Even if we define "do your own research" as "look up a paper," ask yourself:

* Who is the lead author? Are they respectable?
* What is the study protocol? Is the result statistically significant?
* Are the results consistent with the literature?

If you can't answer, don't "do your own research."
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

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