• mushroommunk@lemmy.today
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      6 hours ago

      Sure, fine, some get this right, and what else are they getting wrong? Something more serious and harder to spot?

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        5 hours ago

        I agree that we should never treat these things as oracles. But how often they’re right/wrong does matter.

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          2 hours ago

          how often they’re right/wrong does matter.

          That’s the wildest take I’ve heard on the question answering machine.

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            Most people get their info from forums and blog posts. Unless you limit yourself to nothing but peer reviewed papers, you probably do some kind of calculation on the legitimacy of whatever source you are perusing and verify it further if it’s something important.