Research Takes So Much Effort
Sep. 13th, 2019 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorI see so many claims about important things that I wish I could adequately respond to one way or another. I know that it's technically possible for me to learn about some subset of these things to make what I guess passes for an informed opinion for a single human individual, but what would be required for me to do even that often seems...extremely extensive. And I have such a terrible attention span. Truly frustrating.
I will say that if someone's trying to prove something as opposed to just make a statement of their beliefs they should cite thoroughly researched and vetted sources and/or make a logically coherent argument and not just be like 'scientists say' or 'here's a completely unsourced claim I will authoritatively make...' There is of course a solid place for just saying what one believes without going to the effort of justifying it, but when one is making claims they expect to convince someone who doesn't already believe those claims is...not that place.
I will say that if someone's trying to prove something as opposed to just make a statement of their beliefs they should cite thoroughly researched and vetted sources and/or make a logically coherent argument and not just be like 'scientists say' or 'here's a completely unsourced claim I will authoritatively make...' There is of course a solid place for just saying what one believes without going to the effort of justifying it, but when one is making claims they expect to convince someone who doesn't already believe those claims is...not that place.