When I was in elementary school, I was told that for research projects we couldn't use Wikipedia, but everything else was OK. I could just google the question and use the first thing that popped up. Nope. Everything has a bias and Wikipedia isn't all bad. I didn't even look at Wikipedia for the longest time and trusted anything else blindly. Have you seen that ad that says "They can't put anything on the internet that isn't true"? That was me in elementary school.
I had to learn what kinds of sources had questionable info. Certain topics needed much more checking than others that were dictated by pure facts, and even then it wasn't OK to just breeze by. Seminar helped a little with that but I think I have it down now.
I know others will have much more interesting stories than this, and over more current topics and issues, but I wanted to do something a little more tame.
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