In Defense of “Doing Your Own Research”
The corporate media recently freaked out over the idea that the public is more interested in doing their own research than blindly trusting the experts.
On April 29, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy appeared on the Dr. Phil show to discuss his first 100 days in office. While many of his supporters celebrated the mention of geoengineering, the corporate media lambasted Kennedy for discussing so-called chemtrails, and, more specifically, for recommending the public “do their own research”.
“We live in a democracy and part of the responsibility of being a parent is to do your own research,” Kennedy told Dr. Phil’s audience. “You research the baby stroller, you research the the foods that they’re getting, and you need to research the medicines that they’re taking as well.”
Immediately following this appearance, the corporate media went to work disparaging Kennedy for daring to suggest that parents take the time to be informed about their children’s health choices, as opposed to blindly trusting their doctors or the recommendations of government agencies.
The Washington Post reported “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shows the fallacy of ‘doing your own research’“, followed by The New York Times and “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines“. Not to be outdone, MSNBC announced “The problem with RFK Jr.’s ‘Do your own research’ line on vaccines“, and Newsweek published an op-ed titled, “Why RFK Jr.’s ‘Do Your Own Research’ Advice Is Bad For Your Health“.
The Post starts by dredging up the memory of infamous conspiracy researcher Bill Cooper and blaming him for telling people to think for themselves.
“One legacy he left with all of us was his oft-repeated instruction, “Do your own research,” which for years became a catchphrase mostly for the woo-woo set of America — the Elvis-is-alive crowd, the Fox Mulders, QAnon — until this week when Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it in an interview with Dr. Phil,” Monica Hesse wrote for the Post.
Hesse took issue with Kennedy’s stroller statement, letting the public know that “researching a vaccine is a substantially more complicated than researching a stroller”. The only way a parent is capable of researching a vaccine, according to Hesse and the Post, is to get “a PhD in immunology or cellular and molecular biology”, acquire a lab to “conduct months or years worth of double-blind clinical trials, publishing your findings in a peer-reviewed academic journal”, and then patiently navigate government regulations to “make sure your vaccine is safe and effective”.
Hesse goes on to state that the phrase “do your own research” is an “insidious phrase” which “sounds objectively neutral”, but is actually based on an “unspoken shared understanding that the official story is suspect”.
The New York Times spoke with Dr. Paul Offit, the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine and the so-called vaccine expert at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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