Please stop saying you researched it.

You didn’t research anything and it’s highly probable that you don’t even know how to do so.

Did you compile a literature review and write abstracts on each article? Or better, did you collect a random sample of sources and perform independent statistics on the reported results? No?

Did you at least take each article, one by one, and look into the sources (that would be the author, publisher, and funder), then critique the writing for logical fallacies, cognitive distortions, and plain inaccuracies?

Did you ask yourself why this source might publish these particular results? Did you follow the trail of references and apply the same source of scrutiny to them?

No? Then you aren’t researching anything. You read or watched a video, most likely with little to no objectivity. You came across something in your feed algorithm, manipulated the feed, something that jived with your implicit biases and served your confirmation bias, and subconsciously applied your emotional filters and called it proof.