The part about a Christian school and a Christian teacher who "read a paper" and decided to stop using "mom" "dad" and "parents" shows how badly adults are trained into accepting responsibility or in their love of truth. One of the best exercises, not that we saw it as that, I did with my peers in college was to go through the NYTs science section each week and pick apart the bad assumptions in the articles about published papers in peer reviewed journals. Now, they right articles about preprints, so the errors will be greater. But, each paper is AT BEST a pointer at some truth, not "the" truth. What is true needs verification, reproducible and a whole host of things.

One who loves truth guards it jealously. We are not sluts for ideas, but we seek and cling to the truth. We don't toss aside our minds each time we read and article even if it seems plausible. That poor teacher, with no anchor holding it fast while the tides of bullshit come in and out. Those poor kids thinking the teacher was anchored in reality.

It took a generation raised on shitty ideas and taught no critical thinking to create teachers who fall for this, who then give rise to a generation that produces a teachers that aggressive about pushing this crap. These errors have been in the making for a very long time.