Scientists show how ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies — This effect arises because of the quality of information churned out by Google’s search engine::Researchers found that people searching misinformation online risk falling into “data voids” that increase belief in conspiracies.
Whatever they read that reaffirms their biases, especially.
So “doin research” = “throwing away anything contradicting to your views”. Makes sense ¯\_(ツ)_/¯