But... “I’ve done my own research!”

We’ve heard it… we’ve used it… and it always seems to come as a rebuttal

“I’ve done my own research!”

But have we? 

Have we actually done our own research, spent months and years testing a hypothesis’ validity, or have we simply typed into a search bar a symptom… an idea… a question and gotten millions of returns from websites and maybe a couple of the t…