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It DOES matter where the information comes from. If it is wrong, especially if it is intentionally wrong, there is no correct way to use it-other than to eliminate it from consideration.
Thats the issue. You can't know if its right or wrong in most cases.

If someone says your medical will take a year, you won't know if they are right until you get your medical.

There are obvious cases where someone is BS-ing, but most of the times you have to trust the random people on the internet. If you refuse to why are you even here? Just schedule a consult with whatever expert you need to discuss with and avoid forums entirely. The existence of the medical issue board is because of people wanting advice from sources they don't know anything about.
 
I'm a relative new guy here - just joined a bit over a year ago. In that short period of time I have observed exactly the behavior that Dr Chien is upset over. I have three specific observations:

1) There are several regular posters here who seem to have the sole purpose of arguing and belittling others wherever and whenever they can. The ignore feature is a good start, but the responses to their posts still show up, and that can be incredibly annoying.

2) The range of experience and capability is astoundingly wide - all the way from pilots with decades of military and/or airline flight experience down to people just starting to work towards a sport pilot cert. A new person here is likely to have difficulty determining the background behind the various input he/she receives on this board.

3) Pilots as a whole will tend to be either full-time professionals in the field, or they will be people who have been relatively successful in other professional endeavors - successful enough to afford an aviation avocation. This is a recipe for combining groups of people who may often be incorrect, but will never be in doubt of their position - and they will argue their incorrect point to the death.
 
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