Does chatgpt do bigoted stupidity yet? For some reason doing your own research seems to mean digging through the swamp and finding people that are even more stupid and hateful than the “researcher”
Not when you don’t call it research and just say “I read about what scientist X has to say about topic Y, isn’t that interesting?” It’s not “I did my own research and here’s the true facts!” The latter is usually about shoring up your preconceived notions anyway.