One of the thing you learn when you go to University is the skill of separating facts from fiction, or at least, state your source, and more importantly, state a legit source.
It is the cornerstone to Essay writing. Everyone can have an opinion, that is perfectly fine but you can't just state something without backing up your claim, even if you think it's obvious. Say in the essay you say "The Sky is Blue". You better have an * and link to a footnote and explain that the sky is blue due to the particles as light travels through the atmosphere and explained by X Paper, in Y Date by Z Author. Or if you put that "stealing is illegal", you need to state the chapter and verse on which legislation it comes out of, and the case law gives the definition on what constitute as stealing. What you don't do is link to obscure sources, you learn to filter out and realise what is bad sources and what is legit. Even Wikipedia is not a good source, because it is user editable meaning it is prone to errors.
You can see someone without this skill coming a mile off, it is more than likely they never had a university education, it doesn't really matter what degree they took, it doesn't need to be science, because the standard of referencing is pretty much the same across the board. When someone never gone through that, they never learn to have that filter in their head. They think questioning everything is the way to go. They think questioning legit sources is even better idea. There is an distinct lack of separation on what is legit or not. Their questioning isn't the problem, their lack of skill on filtering is.
Can you imagine, like
@andya700 's wife, spent years in school, worked hard, good grades, get into university, got a job, doing research, basically what she is good at (Excellent at, 100% guarantee better than all of us at it), and then someone somewhere online who has never picked up a book on the subject goes on Twitter, Facebook and forums disputing all of their lifetime of work base on something they read from another Twitter feed. No reasonable man would ever do the latter.
One extreme example was when Clinton was running for the 2016 Election and there was this Pizzagate, it was claimed by some CT nut that she ran an underground paedephile ring out of the basement of a pizza parlour in Washington DC. It went around the Far Right channels like wild fire. Now a normal reasonable person would look at that and think it's absurd. (I bet some of you think it is possible, even 1%).
Well, someone believed it enough to pick up an assault rifle and went and "attack" the Pizza Parlour, shot at the premises, it turns out, obviously, there was no children locked up in the basement, in fact the building doesn't even have a basement.
The man, Edgar Maddison Welch, fired a gun inside the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in December after reading fake stories about a child abuse scheme led by Hillary Clinton.
www.nytimes.com
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