I love science. My parents fostered a great sense of curiosity in me and the need to learn. Part of this was the ability to question what was presented and come to my own conclusions as to whether it was correct or not. It was okay to change my mind as new evidence was presented, included my own experiences and this is how we grow as individuals.
At university we were taught to go to the primary sources for information – not the summaries or reviews but read the original papers and decide whether the research was sound for ourselves. Corrections are regularly published for papers (or retractions made) and these are not always referenced when the original paper is cited, perpetuating the error. (I don’t want to get into a discussion of specific examples as this will detract from the point of this post).