"Do your own research" has become so cliche among antivaxers that it seems to mean "I think what I want and no amount of evidence will convince me otherwise", which is, sadly, the opposite of research.
I expected far more depth out of them than "I wrote this paper on e, and found that people in general adapt their behavior to a particular curve based on their habitual exposure to the unknown.
And I've not seen follow up work of the Dunning-Krueger curve taking into account prior knowledge of Dinning-Krueger either. So no points there.
Thirdly, I'm pretty sure everybody doing self-assessment a du jour at workplaces can be in some way attributed to this fellow's work. This does not currently get you points in my book.
Hmmm. Real research on a vaccine would require at least 30,000 subjects, several months, millions of dollars, and a bio lab. Getting a double blind research result would likely earn a PhD.
No, "do your own research is NOT that simple".
Research is hard. It is time and life consuming. It is also more fun than, as the saying goes, a "barrel (lab-full?) of monkeys".
