"Do your own research" they say.

Starts to make sense how some conspiracies come out when you get examples like this of people being blatantly ignorant of evidence right in front of their noses

In my experience it has less to do with stuff like this where people are just not looking close enough or are mistaken and more to do with the idea of them being wrong being impossible. Conspiracies that I interact with don’t even discuss evidence. Because they can’t be wrong and there’s no way to falsify their worldview.
- A lot of it has to do with wanting to be superior. They have feelings of not having control so they tell themselves and each other that everyone else is stupid and being fooled but not them, they are the smart few, they know the truth, they are the in crowd.
- This, in the post truth era, evidence is only useful to educated people that are willing. For most victims, we have to de program them first.

*every known letter of the alphabet.

The implication that there are undiscovered letters creates excitement for the reader. Who knows what is out there!

My favorite is D2, the sequel to D
- "If the letter D is so great why isn't there a D2"
  spits out drink
math nerds delve into Greek and even Hebrew for special cases.
Þ,ƿ,Ȝ,Æ,ð,ſ
- Þese Æ-y aſes
Maybe it is like one of those ancient curses. Like every time someone says the undiscovered one it solves Bathla devour of souls

Those same people do math incorrectly and shout at everyone else to do it their way.

2+2=5
Don't take my word for it research about it yourself there are lots of good videos on YouTube the government and science liars don't want you to know the truth /s
- 2+2=5
  For extrem values of 2.
- Remember when Terrance Howard tried to explain how 1x1=2 because bird people from Atlantis tricked us? Good times.
- There are four lights
Just look at those viral math problems. I recently saw one that was something like (1+23)(10) and most comments were arguing if it was 7 or 9
- I think you mean (1+23)(10).
  Escape your asterisks, kids.
Of course, there's also the times where we just make the research hard to do.
Like, we teach kids PEMDAS, but then don't actually follow PEMDAS in the original textbooks that introduce it and definitely not in common math or physics texts.
Like, you'll see 1/2√r in Feynman's lectures being written not to represent ½√r = √r / 2 as pemdas would suggest, but 1/(2√r).
Similarly, the original textbooks that introduced PEMDAS, if you read them, actually followed what you might call PEJMDAS, where multiplication via juxtaposition is treated as binding tighter than explicit multiplication, so 1÷2(2+3) would be interpreted not as ½(5) but as 1 ÷ (2 * 5), but they considered that so obvious they didn't bother to explicitly spell it out in the rules.
And now we have Facebook memes and tiktok livestreams arguing about what 1÷2(2+3) actually means.
- Laughs in RPN
- Also by the time you've learned order of operations, you've outgrown the ÷ operator. You would never write 1 ÷ (2 * 5), you would write it with a proper numerator and denominator like anyone outside of elementary school would.
- In the UK it's (or at least was) BODMAS. Just to complicate things further.

It has become impossible to tell if these people are trolling, stupid, or both.

Poe's law at its finest

Sphynx (SPHYNX) of black quartz judge my vow

Am I blind or is there no letter i?
- There is a "y" in "my" so maybe "Sphinx" would complete the sentence?
- yeah it's Sphinx
  Sphinx of Black Quartz, Judge My Vow
- I spelt 'sphynx' (sphinx) wrong, it's saved that way in my phone for some reason and I wasn't paying attention.
  Edit: Ah, yep just saw that comment with the cats. It's because of cats.
- You most definitely do your own research.
  Edit: This person was very right I was just joking jeez.
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs
- Veldt jinx grimps waqf zho buck
Sphinx.
- SPHINX!
Easily the best panagram.
Another Venture Bros. fan?
- I even catch myself doing it out loud, on the rare occasion the word comes up.
  Fucking brilliant show. Still need to watch the film but part of me feels like doing so is admitting it's over, so I'm going to keep putting it off for a bit I think.
~~No f but a ph. You need five sphinxes~~
Found it.

W is in brown

E is in over

V is in over

Z is in lazy

K is in quick

And I can't endorse any viewpoint that tells me to accept something on faith. You might not have time to do your own research on every single issue but you are certainly welcome too

This isn't about not doing your research. It's a lesson in the pitfalls of thinking you've competently done your research..
- Doesn't say that in the picture. Did you determine this on your own?
Most people are incapable of doing their own research. It takes time and money to do studies. It takes years of training to define proper study parameters.
Many people are also incapable of doing a meta analysis based on reading studies and opinions on the Internet. It takes years to root out the mental fallacies that we seem to be born with. But at least many can do this.
Most people should find a trusted source or two and just read those.
Should say to have your research peer reviewed
They did it and were wrong but now they can be corrected

when people don't know how to spell English

How else would you spell it? I've only ever seen it as English. Inglish maybe?
- Inglesh. Ingliti given the ti sound in words ending in tion. Englich if we use the soft ch option. I was functionally illiterate until my teens. By the end of highschool I had a college level reading comprehension but less than a third grade spelling ability. Trying to read something I wrote would have you convinced I wasn't a native English speaker until I was in my late 20s. The less you know about English the more ways you can find to spell any word it offers up.
- Inglese.

They're missing the V because they pronounce over as "o'er"

Da quik braun fox jumps o'va da lazy dog
No C, E, H or W either

the availability of text on the internet can make people believe they're an expert on topics that take a lifetime to understand

if people should do their own research, we may as well shutter the national labs and universities

we may as well shutter the national labs and universities
That's an extremely desirable outcome for the "do your own research" crowd.

I was doubting for a second there. I was like, wait where is the V...

Over
- Yeah I found it, but thanks

Social media folks

Sphinx of Black Quartz; Hear My Vow!

(I vow never to become illiterate)

I especially like when the person who says "theres[sic] no letter e" is wrong 3 times and makes a spelling mistake. 😂

Absolute disasterclass.

This is actually a perfect representation of the shallow "research" conspiracy theorists do.

Quoting only the first few lines of an abstract outlining a problem/open question then ignoring the rest of the paper where they address the issue in the abstract.

This way, they can claim that the paper says the exact opposite of what it does.

I miss ä, ö, ü and ß though. /j

And æ, ø, å
- Give me þ and ð while we're at it.