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With all the talk of "Fake news" today it is useful to know how to do the research yourself to see if your sources are reliable or not:
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With all the talk of "Fake news" today it is useful to know how to do the research yourself to see if your sources are reliable or not:
The point of the article was how to check your sources, it does not rely on just "Google". Google may be the search engine that one uses but it will give multiple sources, from good to bad. This allows one to sift through those sources.Interesting. The trouble is, good sources like Google, NASA, and The Washington Post are far from infallible and well, arguably, reliable.
However, although this is a Current Events forum, consider applying these rules to let's say . . . The Great Deluge (Noah's Flood) with, let's say . . . Gilgamesh. Which was first? Which is more authentic? The best source of such a thing would be the Bible, if you follow the guidelines set out in the video. Of course, thus the potential harm in sources. You favor the one which matches your own belief.
The point of the article was how to check your sources, it does not rely on just "Google". Google may be the search engine that one uses but it will give multiple sources, from good to bad. This allows one to sift through those sources.
Historians can tell you why the Gilgamesh version is older. Mainly because the Hebrew version dates to the fifth to sixth century BC. Moses was fictional too after all.
You misunderstood the video if that is your conclusion. The video suggests checking the first report. First reports of stories are often corrected, but that does not apply to myths. There are other methods than those given for checking out the reliability of myths.The point is, ultimately you have to rely on sources and that in and of itself is problematic. I trust many news reports I see on You Tube by people like James Corbett and other unauthentic sources than I would The Washington Post or any reputable news agency.
If you want a reliable source it's difficult to find one in a hundred these days because few people own and operate all of those sources. And how much does the government have to do with those sources compared to what they used to have to do with them prior to the 1980's. Increasingly so as time progresses.
I don't doubt that Gilgamesh is older, but like the video you posted suggests, the first report isn't often the most accurate or authentic one.
Young, intelligent people with unbiased minds could learn from the video. But older adults have biases. We will consider those sources which best support our biases "reliable."
Well, there's no doubt that as a human being you are my superior. (That's sarcasm also)You may consider you bias as reliable. Me I prefer accuracy but i am only 48 so i guess i must count as young ;-)
I do however know several much older (and surprisingly* intelligent) people who are also pleased to educate themselves rather than rely on their personal biases.
* Thats called sarcasm
Well, there's no doubt that as a human being you are my superior. (That's sarcasm also)
Wikipedia is a good place to start since they very often link their sources. It is not like the bad old days when any troll could change an article.When I read information widely accepted as factual information on Wikipedia, I promptly verify this information with an online, reliable academic source which I do cite. ...
With all the talk of "Fake news" today it is useful to know how to do the research yourself to see if your sources are reliable or not:
Young, intelligent people with unbiased minds could learn from the video. But older adults have biases. We will consider those sources which best support our biases "reliable."
When I read information widely accepted as factual information on Wikipedia, I promptly verify this information with an online, reliable academic source which I do cite. ...
I have never quite grasped why people (including my family) fall for fake news. Somewhere along the way, I have developed a way to sniff out fake news almost automatically. If I could explain how to do this to others, it would be great.With all the talk of "Fake news" today it is useful to know how to do the research yourself to see if your sources are reliable or not:
With all the talk of "Fake news" today it is useful to know how to do the research yourself to see if your sources are reliable or not:
Wait...you know intelligent people who have 'unbiased minds'?
I'm calling BS.
Better they learn to recognise the bias in both themselves and sources.