Gil Scott-Heron Quotes

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.

Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.

I think that any time you are making a film you have to realize that the people you are talking with might be giving you misinformation. Sometimes it is factually incorrect and for that, it's important to me to check it out and not let things find their way into the film without being challenged, either by me, or by another character, or by evidence that you might see on screen.

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

I always tell my fans that are closest to me, if it's not coming from my mouth, my website, or my appointed person, then it's generally not true. Or it's an exaggeration.

I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.

I'd like to get to a state where people think that if you've Googled something, you've researched it, and otherwise haven't, and that's it.

I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

You can't believe everything you hear on the Internet.

I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.

When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.

When I was a child, my parents didn't know anything about drugs. They didn't even drink.

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

I don't believe everything I read.

I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation.

In the news feed on your phone, all stories look the same - whether they come from a credible source or not.

The biggest thing I worry about is the unsubstantiated story. You have to tell the people what you know -- and acknowledge what you don't know.

It would be impossible to be fact-checking Donald Trump all the time.

I do have a plan for the country [the USA]. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people should be taught how to smoke pot, because even potheads don't know how to smoke pot. I've evolved into not only an activist, but an educator. I want to show people how, when, and why they should smoke pot.

I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.

If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction.

And all I knew about drugs was what I read in magazines like Time and Life. I learned that marijuana was a dangerous addictive drug and that I should stay away from it.

I'm against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name.