Auscandoc<p>Scientists Explain Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Leads to Believing Conspiracies <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bjpm/scientists-explain-why-doing-your-own-research-leads-to-buying-conspiracies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vice.com/en/article/v7bjpm/sci</span><span class="invisible">entists-explain-why-doing-your-own-research-leads-to-buying-conspiracies</span></a></p><p>“study published on Wednesday in Nature has found that using online search engines to vet <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/conspiracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracies</span></a> can actually increase the chance that someone will believe it. The researchers point to a known problem in search called "<a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/DataVoids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataVoids</span></a>." Sometimes, there's not a lot of high-quality information to counter misleading headlines or surrounding fringe theories”</p>