Kevin McCluney plädiert fürs Lesen wissenschaftlicher Artikel, selbst bei banalen Fragen. Noch, so der Unterton des Artikels, kann man damit Fehlinformation umgehen und eine kritische Haltung gegenüber anderen Informationsquellen einnehmen.
The internet empowers us to educate ourselves and make more informed choices and decisions without leaving our couches. But if we believe everything we find on the internet, we are likely to wind up making some very poor decisions. In this new digital information age, how do we keep from being misinformed? As a skeptical environmental research scientist and educator I have picked up a few tricks that anyone can use to find and select high-quality information from the internet.