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Six-panel Wondermark comic by David Malki! in Victorian engraving style. Panel 1, a scholar in a mortarboard says: "Now LISTEN TO ME! I've done exhaustive research over twenty years as a nutritionist-slash-petroleum engineer. I INSIST that gasoline is NOT a health drink. DO NOT INGEST IT." Panel 2, he adds: "If you have ANY brain at all, you'll agree that that's an OBVIOUS fact!" A long-haired man replies: "SCREW…

Do Your Own Research: Gasoline Edition

A Wondermark comic mocking "do your own research" culture, where a gasoline salesman's pitch is parroted back as independent conclusions. A sharp take on misinformation.

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Six-panel Wondermark comic by David Malki! in Victorian engraving style. Panel 1, a scholar in a mortarboard says: "Now LISTEN TO ME! I've done exhaustive research over twenty years as a nutritionist-slash-petroleum engineer. I INSIST that gasoline is NOT a health drink. DO NOT INGEST IT." Panel 2, he adds: "If you have ANY brain at all, you'll agree that that's an OBVIOUS fact!" A long-haired man replies: "SCREW…

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A vial of dark red blood with a red cap beside a block of text. It reads: "It contains more than 4,000 chemicals and it has spread into every human body on Earth." "Among its components are formaldehyde, acetone, ethanol, ketone bodies, dihydrogen monoxide, tryptophan, urea, Dehydroepiandrosterone, Hexosephosphate P, and at least 20 kinds of acids." "Nearly every chemical constituent will, in certain… Twelve-panel infographic of an orange robot arguing with a teal robot, each panel naming a logical fallacy. Hasty Generalization, Red Herring, Slippery Slope, Genetic Fallacy, Circular Argument, Ad Populum, Straw Man, Moral Equivalence, Either/Or, Begging the Claim, Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, Ad Hominem. Logo: Artists for Education. Black-and-white line drawing of the trolley problem: a trolley heads down a track that splits in two. A worried man stands beside a lever at the junction. Five people lie tied on the main track and the side track is empty. Text beside the man reads: "I'd pull the lever if supporters of pulling the lever hadn't been so toxic to me" Screenshot of a website called The Soapbox with a purple header. The headline reads "Liberals Are Losing the Journalism Wars". The subhead reads "As major media outlets erect paywalls, conservative publishers are flooding the country with free, right-wing propaganda paid for by Republicans." A yellow pop-up covers the page with three dots, two filled and one empty, and a close X. It reads "This is the last of your… Two side-by-side photos under the heading "NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE". Left: a man in a dark suit places a blue-ribboned medal on a short-haired woman in a red jacket, captioned "TALK SHOW HOST". Right: a man places a medal on a gray-haired older man in a dark jacket, captioned "VIETNAM WAR HERO". Below, typewriter-style text reads: "You know what? I do see the difference! The guy on the left is awarding Ellen with the… A young man with slicked-back hair in a black tuxedo and white bow tie smirks at the camera while raising a coupe glass of champagne. Caption text above reads: "Cheers to everyone who does their own research. In the age of information, ignorance is a choice."

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