You are absolutely right. However, people are generally too lazy to investigate WHY they believe WHAT they believe. They would rather just make unjustified remarks that seek to confound any issue raised. There is a bad side to using the internet to find information for the greatest amount of it is based upon bias and philosophy - the ideas of men versus what is taught in Scritures.
I Thess. 5:21 speaks of "times and seasons," not of doing research. However, in Act 17:11 we do find a verse that is pertinent, as I'm somewhat sure you would agree. It is always more noble, to use Paul's word, to do the research yourself to see if what is said is true - which does, in a way, make it incumbant upon individuals to do their own investigating.
Are we both reading the same verse? As i read 1 Thessalonians 5:21 it speaks of “test everything hold fast to what is good”.
The internet is a ocean and there’s poisonous things in it as well healthful. One just has to very careful about what they swallow. True of my local library also which has a patina of authority for its contents as the internet does not.
Yes, the Beroeans were noble minded for doing the examination the Thessalonians were told to do.