"Do your own research!": When YouTubers Are More Reliable than Academics
Or, How I Learned To Trust No One and Love Not Knowing Anything
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What does research even mean now? Rolling mental breakdown notwithstanding, I feel like I’m not sure about anything anymore and I need someone to blame. So I’m blaming The Information Age.
In this political moment we have unparalleled access to any and all material, from the verifiable document, to the widely accepted idea, to the absolute crackpot theor…
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