stephendann:quasi-normalcy:tikkunolamorgtfo:memehumor:The fact that you cannot find any journals to
stephendann:quasi-normalcy:tikkunolamorgtfo:memehumor:The fact that you cannot find any journals to back up your viewpoint MAY suggest you need to reassess your viewpoint…Okay, but for real—I’m a librarian and I get shit like this all the fucking time and I have to be so polite about it, like “Well, actually, that theory has been largely been debunked and is not supported by the scientific community, so perhaps it might be easier in terms of fulfilling the parameters of the assignment if you were to take the opposite stance for your paper?” when really I just want to scream for twenty minutes like Jake Peralta with a guitar. Do…Do people not understand that the research is supposed to come before you formulate your opinion?Oh hell no. “Do your Research™” is supposed to come with post-facto justification. Remember kids! If you can’t find the support for the conclusion you’ve already reached, apply the following1) Conspiracy! Big SOMETHING is suppressing the truth2) Government! The Feds are trying to suppress it ! FIGHT THE POWER!3) Sheeple! Little wooden figures from Carcasonne are to blame4) A minority has suppressed the truth, and prepare for an UTTERLY RACIST EXPLANATION that makes no sense unless you assume the worst of any group of people with a demonstrated track record of getting the shit kicked out of them by the powers that be on a regular basis!5) Avocadoes! Or whoever cashing-in-on-idiots of the month ring leader is said that thing is true, therefore whack a crystal up your nethers, snort a line of ionised homeopathic chalk, and beware the microwave ovens6) It’s a controversy! BOTH SIDES!7) Fake news!8) End of Cheese Error -- source link