Sometimes I’ll just be like ‘you’re not a high school social studies teacher, you don’t need a works cited page. Either believe it or not.’ Other times I’ll point out their pattern of behavior and argument strategy before they even get to the final stage, where they say since it didn’t come from a reputable source it doesn’t count. They don’t seem to grasp all of their beliefs are being influenced by propaganda sources so of course any real news will seem strange to them. They’re interesting creatures.
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I think it comes from the fact that this is just how life is for humans for the first ~22 or so years. Age 0-6, your parents are your educators. They seem to know everything, and they teach you everything you know. K-12 it is similar, now your teachers are the experts and everything they tell you is fact. Then you get to college, and you have experts in every field and everything they tell you is fact and you learn it.
Adulthood comes, and all of a sudden there really arent any experts anymore. Sure, there may be organizations and government officials who can be said to be experts, but can they always be trusted? Certain people trust these officials because they have been programmed for their entire lives to trust the experts.