Seriously guys, I'm really getting sick of this. Yes, it's important to learn how to research, but remember when they invented the calculator and the teacher kept telling you how important it was to learn to do it on paper, and yet...there's a fucking calculator?
This place is our calculator. Nobody is going to take anyone else's words at face value, true. And we shouldn't. But the truth is not everyone knows what everyone else knows and we're not going to learn what everyone knows if we keep sticking our noses in the air and saying "look it up yourself."
You looked it up apparently, do us all a favor and show us where you looked. It will help get us all where we need to be a hell of a lot faster.
What authority? One random guy posting on GAW owns another's view?
What the OP is asking about is not a difficult request. State your sources if you have intel. When someone asks how you know X, you know X already, so of course it's obvious to you. They don't know X, and maybe because they don't know X, they don't what questions they need answer to learn what X really is, especially with fake news EVERYWHERE.
I feel as if that was unclear, let me elaborate. I work in a job with certain "mundane" tasks, but they aren't readily available to a new worker. The senior workers (if they want good new people) have to train them what to look for continuously. It's not because the new people are dumb. It is because the process is almost always the same, yet always small changes. So you can't repeat exactly each job. You have to know the inner workings.
The same is true here. Many of us (myself included) are not "professional" diggers. I personally try to read a lot of stuff before coming to a conclusion, but I usually track with a good gut feeling on most things. I felt the RU UA conflict was BS day 1, COVID after the 1st week, etc. I try not to ask "stupid" questions, but many people are not trusting of their gut, they don't have time at work to read a bunch of random articles while raising a family or whatever.
Like Steven Crowder's rant at UMass (found on YT), if there's one thing we should all take away from his rant at the SJW, is that we shouldn't be an asshole our whole life.
Learn to help. As my chief in the Navy once said, "if you can't explain it to a 5 year old, you don't know what you're talking about." Words of wisdom.