Originally Posted by u-Bob

PSA from u-Bob:
Always form your own opinion. Don't accept things for truth just because a news reporter, a politician, a man in a uniform,... tells you to.

Example: In one of the Oslo bombing threads I questioned a news report that claimed that the bomber used a 6 ton fertilizer based car bomb. I pointed out that it's impossible to get 6 tons of fertilizer in a car. It's even impossible to put 6 tons of fertilizer in 2 cars (as was later reported).
As it later turned out, I was right. The bomber had used a much smaller amount of fertilizer to build his bombs. Some of it had been used in tests. The rest was stored on his farm and later destroyed by the police.

Why did I think it was important to point out that that part of the news report (the 6 ton car bomb) couldn't true? Because if the reporter was wrong about that, it is possible that he was also wrong about other details.

Why have I posted articles and videos about police brutality in the past? Because I've noticed a tendency amongst people to stop thinking when a police officer is involved and just assume the police officer's side of the story is true even if there's video evidence of for example cops slamming a wheelchair bound guy head first into concrete.