“People are prone to wishful thinking. They can believe an assertion and espouse it as truth in the face of overwhelming evidence and facts to [the] contrary, simply because they wish that things were so. Also, people are generally gullible, easily mislead, and conformist - as in the Asch Conformity Experiments. Fortunately, the higher the stakes, the more incentivized people are to actively seek and filter information, rather than let opinions come to them. Unfortunately, social media has trained us to be “fed” information and ideas rather than considering first and intentionally searching after - this is contrary to human nature.”

https://alexpacheco.substack.com/p/solving-the-signal-to-noise-ratio-problem