[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It is how I judge most articles. I do not know everything. I do not even know a little about everything. But I do know a bit about a very few things. So I look to see if the author is speaking into an area, even lightly, where I know my onions.

If they are aligned with reality in those areas I take the author seriously.

If they don't it means they are either lazy or lying to me.

Either way they are generally not worth wasting my time on.

I will give them a second chance if I know of the writer and know they have generally been accurate in the past. But they had better wow me with accuracy and insight in that second chance.

Life is too short and there is too much to be read to waste your time on things where the author did not bother to do five minutes worth of research. Especially now that it is so easy to do it.

[BipolarBob]

I prefer my ice cream with schaudenfraude topping