this advice is lazy if not well intentioned IMO. There are certainly basic epistemological classifications that cut through "everything is an advert or propagan

this advice is lazy if not well intentioned IMO. There are certainly basic epistemological classifications that cut through "everything is an advert or propaganda" assertions; for example Science. It is not a matter of propaganda, the behavior of a solid fat above a certain temperature. Wikipedia is full of this kind of information. A physics colleague regularly cites Wikipedia on topics of linear algebra, rather than the thirty+ text books on the shelf. Why? because Wikipeda pages on certain topics are more useful, and more concise, than many of those books in practice. From which didactic approach does "throw the baby out with the bathwater" come from here? Wise words from a crypto practitioner ? say more