Absolutely spot on - so much cruft on the internet. From Assistant Village Idiot:
Douglas2's Law
Frequent AVI commenter Unknown/Douglas2 weighed in over at a post of James's at I Don't Know, But...
I liked it well enough to reprint it.
I've even postulated versions of "Douglas2's Law", which are:
a) if you can't get to primary sources within 3 clicks of hyperlinks (such as to a transcript or video of the talk or interview, the actual court decision, or the journal precis of the scientific paper), they are intentionally lying to you.
b) sensational articles will include links but trust that very few of their readers will actually click and read what is linked, as it nearly always contains the refutation of their headline claim.
I always follow the breadcrumbs back to the primary sources. Got to do that. Anything else is just clickbait and we all love clickbait. (the ascended master: here and here)
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