If you believe we should not question TV pundits, sponsored scientists, paid fact-checkers and hired experts, you haven't seen what Upton Sinclair said some 100 years ago:
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
In my upcoming book (to be published early 2022), I describe the brain circuits and chemical soups that make all of us vulnerable to self-delusions (biases) and addictions.
Interesting facts about Sinclair:
He was a political journalist and writer with socialist views. Later in life, he changed his views and became a Democrat. He married three times.
His 1906 book The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, caused a public uproar that contributed to the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
In 1910, the Sinclair and his first wife moved to the single-tax village of Arden, Delaware. A year later, Sinclair was arrested for playing tennis on the Sabbath and spent eighteen hours in the New Castle County prison in lieu of paying a fine.
His 1927 book Oil! was adapted as the film There Will Be Blood (2007), starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film received eight Oscar nominations and won two.