I 'am going to talk about the last point, finding my own articles or information that would support my own opinion is the purpose of a research, actually I think the opposite of this statement is right, you do the research to find what people who have other opinion have to say, you find answers for their question and their claims. at the end, there has to be one of you who is wrong. you are going to learn anything if you are just going to look at people who the same thing to say as you do, you are not going to learn anything. you be honest with yourself .... you will get the better result :)
the first thing you do when you start fall is to stop falling ;)