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This kind of mentality that someone's news article counts as a source is poisonous. People read these articles and think that because a few facts have hyperlinks then they must be valid. Half of those links on that page go to other blogs and news site. One even goes to Youtube. Blogs and news agencies don't count as citations to base an argument on. Policy needs to start at peer reviewed research and build up from there.

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What, other than an article summarizing research, could possibly be provided as citation? Fund me some peer-reviewed research. In the meantime, we'll just have to make policy by flipping a coin, as there is clearly no other standard of knowledge available to us. /s

> This kind of mentality that someone's news article counts as a source is poisonous.

Most underrated comment in the world.

This coupled with for-profit journalism and the atrophy of critical thinking is giving rise to nonsense like anti-vax, chemtrails, and flat Earth.

In America, the public has been led so astray by both the media and the government about things like basic macronutrients that a recent report found 1/3 of Americans, 100 million people, are diabetic are prediabetic (will have type II diabetes in 5 years).

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/statistics/statistics-repo...

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