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look. I am in no way saying someone should not critically analyze something regardless of source. There are however. many, many, many. folks that do not. To me you are saying trust wikipedai without critical analyses. What I am saying is that of the folks who don't critically analyze and just go with what folks tell them and what they read. well they used to at least look at the source and they would trust doctors more on medical things and teachers more on academic things and lawyers more on legal things. especially if they knew them a bit and had free access to them. it would be better if they took an elementary logic class and learned how to do research (this was why I talked about the card catalogue, if you cannot do it with the outdated methods you are likely not really going to be able to do it with modern conveniences). fact is that most are not going to do that though and if they are not then they are better off listening to people who have spent time learning about a particular subject or whos schooling or background would make it likely they are more knowledgable around it.