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MineralMan

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3. Yes. Well, evaluating the significance of an award like that one
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 11:08 AM
Mar 2019

is difficult unless you investigate the organization giving the award and grant. That takes a little effort, and the information isn't found on sites like religionnews.com, which has a distinct pro-religion bias.

Quoting brief excerpts of articles on sites that have such biases without investigating further often leads to a distorted view of the story, I think. Even going to the link does not provide information about the organization being discussed, so further research is needed. On sites like DU, even getting people to click to read the article from which a brief excerpt is quoted is problematic. That makes it easy to post slanted information that misses important information.

I often click through to such links, and then go further and research other elements of such stories. Very often, I find that material excepted from biased websites is incomplete and does not reveal important information that is relevant to the validity of the information presented.

I suspect I'm not typical of DU readers though, and even I often don't bother to look further if the original source is easily recognizable as biased.

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