As much as people argue about what is fact, Tompkins concludes that fact is all perspectival. Finding true facts can be confusing and frustrating but in the end it all comes down to your own thoughts. Taking bits and pieces of information from other "experts" on a particular subject and pulling what you think is relevant will give you the truth. Your truth.
Doing some personal investigation on the "expert" can be insightful because you can learn a little about how they might have perceived the facts. By extracting what you might think is personal view, you can then reveal a better understanding of what might have really happened. E