This is a real opinion article… published back in February, but a necessary reference.

“Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole
Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.”

 

 

The best is that when one searches for the article, the Times’s cognitive dissonance shows up in marvelous tandem… look at what they had to say back in 1985:

All of the sighs.