"Don't Go Down The Rabbit Hole" - NYTimes Decries Critical Thinking, Tells Americans To Trust Google Instead
instead of engaging with someone that challenges your worldview, you should “resist the lure of Rabbit Holes” and go to more authoritative sources such as Google and Wikipedia. The New York Times appears to have declared war on traditional critical thinking, which they say “isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation”. Sharing the insights of “a digital literacy expert” named Michael Caulfield, the article reads as follows: “We’re taught that, in order to protect ourselves from bad information, we need to deeply engage with the stuff that washes up in front of us,” ...