It is staggering how many people cannot engage critical thought.

Because they've fallen down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole to the point of where they only trust things if there's a convoluted explanation behind it.

The very first of the "false or unproven" claims they list is "animal protein is healthier than plant-based protein".

And at this level of imprecision, that claim is true!

Animal protein has a good balance of amino acids. Many plant proteins do not. Sure, you can mix various plant proteins to get a good balance. But if you don't know what you're doing - getting all your protein from beans, for instance - you can end up with a deficiency.

Maybe rather than say the problem is "an overabundance of conflicting information", they might want to improve the quality of the information that they push.

Perhaps it’s naive but I really think that teaching critical thinking patterns to young teens can help. Just telling “don’t believe everything you read” can cut both ways.

There’s a huge difference between something that is proven false and something that is unproven. Why are these bucketed together?

I don’t know anyone who believes nothing that hasn’t been statistically proven. You can’t operate in real life that way.