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The Origins of Information and the Subjective Valuations affecting what we know to be truth

This is my first Sandbox entry including some bold ramblings, so please don't judge me because I'm trying to be brave and bold.

In life, there is a common propensity to hastily presume what we read to be true. Indeed, at schools there are barely any consideration to the 'truth' of information we so blindly accept and it is not really thought of a concept until we reach university. This encourages an attitude of brazen acceptance as to what we're told and what we read, without giving the requisite consideration as to where this information might come from, for example, or who had financed the paper used to validate the argument.

It can even go as far, in my opinion, that the subjective opinions of the author of a paper should be questioned when considering a conclusion. Whilst, in most cases, the evidence used in the paper can be established as fact, the way in which this evidence is manipulated and used to come to a concrete conclusion - and thus the whole tone of the paper - based on the author's own interpretation of his own findings, with another person maybe having a completely different perception.