Don't do your own research, just believe in the Current Thing™. Just trust the Scientists™, they are smarter than you.

The modern day "do your own research means find whatever supports your confirmation bias". However, I feel like there's a lot of discouragement against a healthy skepticism as well, which is... not healthy either.

This entirely depends on how limited your perspective is. A limited perspective leads to more negative actions and an open perspective leads to more affirmative actions. 'Organized Groups', who influence others to think like them and believe what they believe, are results of negation.

People aren't taught how to do actual research anymore and it's sad.

You can always find your own truth if you search deep enough

As time goes on, Google further prioritizes results from far right think tanks, as they are paying for better visibility. Unless you are specifically searching through Google Scholar, trusting the first results of any given search has increasingly become a coin flip.

So…stop using Google?

I've seen this myself - so you could say this article confirms my bias. People who otherwise appear to be reasonable and intelligent - they are falling for what seem obviously untrue. But after doing research, and seeing the same ideas regurgitated in many places, it gives credence to the original idea.

This happens over and over again and I think people exacerbate the problem by then engaging in dialogue with other users, where they argue and become entrenched. Now their ego is tied to this position and changing course based on new information means admitting something they'd rather not . .

"Do your own researchs bro"

And we know understand why they all say it