Comment Re:An episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit says (Score 1) 668
It can be even worse.
Not exactly the same thing, but related, I have recently done the research to tell my Work's mailing list that a hoax someone had forwarded was a hoax. I was called "prepotent", because the person who spread the hoax was obviously a well meaning person, who sent the message because "he cares for us", and "it is not totally implausible, even if not true".
So people not only don't care about doing the research. They resent those who do.