Posted October 09, 2016
That's a mighty big IF, but I'll oblige.
If you read "The sky is blue" from two sources, and one of them is Alex Jones, I'd look out the window just to be sure. And if you want to be seen as anything but a conspiracy nut, I'd certainly not use anything Alex Jones linked for sources. He is seen as a clueless clown for good reasons.
A tangent, which is similar in one way and radically different in another. Looking up stuff on Wikipedia is fine for quick info (and much of it is actually very, very good) but you don't want to source that when writing academic articles or whatever. People don't trust it.
If you read "The sky is blue" from two sources, and one of them is Alex Jones, I'd look out the window just to be sure. And if you want to be seen as anything but a conspiracy nut, I'd certainly not use anything Alex Jones linked for sources. He is seen as a clueless clown for good reasons.
A tangent, which is similar in one way and radically different in another. Looking up stuff on Wikipedia is fine for quick info (and much of it is actually very, very good) but you don't want to source that when writing academic articles or whatever. People don't trust it.