members here do not stand with primary authority on any matters. they all relay the stories they hear in the news...
Well personally I wouldn't agree with you on that. I am a practicing scientist and I both read the primary literature and perform primary research on a day to day basis. But I don't expect you to take any notice of that nor do you have any reason to believe me.
Be that as it may it is still possible to get information directly from the primary literature, more and more in these days of open access journals, so there is little call to resort to pre-digested forms taken from secondary or tertiary sources unless there is no other option and certainly no need to just plop them down wholesale as if they will stand in for a well reasoned and cogent argument of your own.
TTFN,
AW