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Aristus

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48. "Research". "I was doing some research." - "Do your own research!" - "I did my own research!"

Reply to hlthe2b (Original post)

Wed Apr 2, 2025, 03:02 PM

Apr 2

Almost always when it is appended to some ludicrous argument about vaccines, or autism, or COVID-19, or fucking Roswell, New Mexico.

"Research", to these half-wits, fuckwits, and chuzzlewits, is watching a Youtube or TikTok video hosted by some similarly brainless grade-school dropout who likely still eats Elmer's Glue, and with whose views the "researcher" already agrees.

I hate the way the misuse of the term diminishes and demeans the noble and rigorous process of actually trying to accumulate and interpret data. Thus increasing the sum total of human knowledge and wisdom.

Every dipshit waste of human protoplasm with an internet connection fancies him or herself a "researcher".

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