tony_sandlin t1_itf8m9a wrote on October 23, 2022 at 5:03 AM

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You must have had a bad experience with someone asking for sources lol

notabee t1_itfa2vx wrote on October 23, 2022 at 5:21 AM

Yeah, I have, mostly on reddit. Not because having sources is bad, but because it has become a thought-terminating cliche that people like to use to dismiss bad news or concepts they don't like. Reading sources is good! And it shouldn't require someone hand feeding you sources to take some things seriously enough to spend some time looking into them independently. So many people just parrot shit, and many parrots think "got sources?" is equivalent to winning internet points.

sgrams04 t1_itfd49i wrote on October 23, 2022 at 5:58 AM

>Reading sources is good!

Please provide a source for this

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NoBrains-NoGains t1_iti7o36 wrote on October 23, 2022 at 8:52 PM

While many people use it as a brain-dead defense mechanism, if you are making big claims you should be reasonably prepared to provide evidence to support it. Tons of people pull information out of their ass on reddit too so it goes both ways.