Random surgeon bloviating — On "doing your own research"

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On “doing your own research”

Ethan Siegel at Forbes argues that you “must not ‘do your own research.‘” While the title grates, Siegel is correct that most of us are not really capable of “doing our own research” about most scientific and medical questions.

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“Do your own research.”

How many times have you heard various antivaxxers, cranks, advocates of pseudoscience, and conspiracy theorists repeat these phrases, or variants thereof? In medicine, advocates of what I like to call pseudomedicine—a category that encompasses antivaxxers, COVID-19 denialists and conspiracy theorists, cancer quacks, and all manner of…

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