Doing your own research also means being open to the possibility that your hypothesis is incorrect.
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Right, because professional researchers and academics have never been blinkered by biases or had financial motives to publish certain things or the fact that most published research is unreproducible horseshit. I don't need a meta-analyses and cross corroborated studies to know something works for me despite all the published reasons that say it shouldn't (or vice versa). Pathetic attempt at gatekeeping IMO completely forgetting that most research is in fact based on tinkering and trial & error. Professional researchers are not magically immune to human biases and fallacies, case in point thalidomide, trans fats, "heart healthy" seed oils etc etc.
I think you have this backwards. They aren't saying that professional research doesn't have any of these problems. They're just iterating what research is, and pointing out that the "do your own research" crowd are almost never actually doing any research.