"Doing your own research" in 2024 now makes you a homophobic, misogynist, nazi, transphobic, non alternative pronoun using, ultra MAGA super-duper insane lunatic right wing conspiracy theorist.
Funny thing in the 80s-90s we just called "doing your own research", reading. It was also required if you wanted to graduate high school.

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