DON'T DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH...
US corporate news repeated this phrase in different ways for a long time during the 'vaccination programme' period of the panic-demic just behind us.
Forbes news said it most revealingly: "You must not do your own research when it comes to science" (https://thewhiterose.uk/remember-how-they-lied-to-everyone/).
This plays on different meanings of research:
1. The highly specialised stuff down by highly specialised specialists in a very narrow field using highly specialised techniques that mostly involve counting 'units' that are abstractions from reality, and fiddling with these numbers in highly specialised ways. Nobody but the specialists in that field and a few others who are conversant with those techniques used (eg stats maths) would even attempt to reproduce or replicate this research.
2 Finding data that are reliable, and comparing these with the statements made by journalists, regulatory and other 'officials' such as Government Information sites, Health-Care institutions and bodies, eg.
"This [panic-demic] is the worst global crisis since WWII". The first year of the panic-demic before people were bullied, harangued, and lied to in order that ALL take them - this year was the most one of the healthy in terms of mortality rates since WWII. All in the official stats available in 30 secs showed this. Every year prior to 2008 had higher mortality rates than 2020 in England and Wales. In some countries it was nearly 0.
3. Compare what different specialist say or write. If there is strong disagreement among the reputable specialists. then examine them for clues as to their reliability, and the logic of their basic arguments which are set out in their papers
"Surgical masks are useful in preventing infection and transmission with few negative effects" Up to 50% of the specialists said that there was no convincing evidence for this. This group included the most eminent in their field: tenured, award-winning (some Nobel Prize winners) academics at top universities.
4.Compare what different journalists say about the specialist research and the specialists themselves; and then compare that with what the specialists actually said.
5. Compare what the mass media tell you is happening with what you experience. If we exclude the old and those who are tragically unhealthy and immune compromised, eg the diabetic and the obese, the 'infection fatality rate' of this panic-demic was about the same as that for a mild cold. Including the vulnerable group, the overall fatality rate was less than 0.5% (ca. 2 per thousand?). A real 'pandemic' would have an overall fatality rate of at least 1% to be taken seriously. That would be six people you knew well enough to know their name.
This kind of 'research' can be done by anyone who can use a personal computer.
If a 'scientist' cannot explain the basic logic and methods of their research to a non-specialist, then they do not understand it themselves (a commonplace among real scientists, attributed Einstein among others).
Sapere aude - don't let the corporate/fascist capitalists and their rag-doll puppets tell you what to think.