I think we can discuss critical thinking without going political.Let's just stick to survival issues, where there is a certain amount of hogwash floating around. Just for one, consider (Un)Bear(able) Grylls various silly stunts, like drinking urine. In terms of rational survival practices, this is a lot of hooey and will lead to a bad outcome.

But you saw it on TV and it's discussed on the internet! We have always needed the ability to think critically, evaluate information, and consider the reliability of the source, especially how biased the source might be. Like so much of our increasingly wired world, the pace has quickened, and one needs to be up to speed.


fake news isn't new,but it is spread much faster by the electronic manure spreaders, gen 4.0, with which we now contend.