I disagree. Critical thinking abilities are the antidote to thinking an opinion is the truth.

Illiterate medieval serf with no critical thinking abilities: “it is written, therefore it must be true”

Vs.

Modern, educated person subjected to gigabytes of information at their fingertips: “I’ll need to see a primary source for the info in this video because it looks like this YouTuber might have an axe to grind”