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Check your emotions
Practice click restraint
Do you recognize this source?
What is the source's expertise, agenda?
Use lateral reading skills to determine this
Use the "Wikipedia trick"
Do some lateral reading
Compare information across different sources
Is there a consensus?
What's the original context?
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From Mike Caulfield's SIFT (Four Moves) with modifications, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.