I started going through the list and found several "wait, why is this to be avoided?" mentions. I started looking around for an explanation on their site and can't find anything.
There doesn't appear to be any clear explanation or rationale. There is however the every unhelpful libertarian mantra "... do your own research ...". Whenever I hear those words uttered I immediate question the legitimacy of the source.
Hiding your research (or lack of) and telling people to do their own is a manipulation. It's telling people to either take you at your word or invest a lot of time and energy into research which might yield a similar conclusion.
Research is meaningless unless it's documented and shared so others can evaluate it.
> Hiding your research (or lack of) and telling people to do their own is a manipulation
Yep. And even worse, since those people are also telling you what conclusion they want you to reach, they're encouraging people to engage in the illusion of research (starting with a conclusion and looking for confirming data points) rather than real research.
There doesn't appear to be any clear explanation or rationale. There is however the every unhelpful libertarian mantra "... do your own research ...". Whenever I hear those words uttered I immediate question the legitimacy of the source.
Hiding your research (or lack of) and telling people to do their own is a manipulation. It's telling people to either take you at your word or invest a lot of time and energy into research which might yield a similar conclusion.
Research is meaningless unless it's documented and shared so others can evaluate it.