Why do researchers often trust the reliability of information obtained from scholarly journals, major newspapers, and well-known magazines? Why should researchers use caution when accessing information from Wikipedia, online forums, and blogs?

 

Any informations once disseminated or circulated to the public can impact various factors like the way people will act, decide or simply the way things or situations treated.

Researchers tend to get informations from reliable sources because of the following reasons:

It delivers authentic information. Those informations coming from major newspaper for example were filtered many times and the people behind it were experts. They already have names known to many so they did their best to spread informations based on facts. For some, proofs like pictures and notes were included on their write ups. On the other hand, those from Wikipedia or any online blogs were considered free access platform because anyone, everythough not knowledgeable on the certain matter, can input or edit.

It creates researchers-readers relationship centered with trust and confidence. This will have a long term effect on both side. Everytime researchers published an article, he/she is confident that the audience can easily trust him/her.

We are living in a world wherein fake news are rampant. It is necessary to find informations to consistent sources we knew and had assurance.