“Do your own research!”

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How many times have I had discussion partners on the internet say to me “Do your own research?”

Inevitably they are pushing some pseudoscientific or anti-scientific conspiracy theory – yet claiming science is their friend!

Here, one of the members of Paul Connett’s Fluoride Action Network team ( Carol Kopf, Media Director who uses the Twitter name @nyscof) tells critics to do their own research – internet research:

nyscof ‏@nyscofJul 25

@HowardFarran And if you type in fluoride adverse effects, you get 270 results http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=fluoride+adverse+effects …#fluoridation#AllDrugsHaveSideEffects

Well, I followed her advice and got this:

Fluoride adverse effects – PubMed

But unlike Carol Kopf I naturally didn’t stop there – I also typed in “water adverse effects” and got this:

Water adverse effects -PubMed

She has a really funny understanding of what the word research means.

Imagine…

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