A friend of mine quoted Bill Burr from a recent podcast, <bq>I read a lot of unsavory things have been coming out about that organization and about all the money that has been going into some new tiling for their olympic-sized pool rather than into their breast-cancer research. And by a lot of things, I mean the one article I read on one website online.</bq> <bq>Something i overheard in a bar and have taken as a fact for the past 20 years.</bq> To which I responded, "Something my Dad told me ONE TIME 35 years ago at an impressionable age and which I have repeated unquestioningly as fact ever since." Training yourself to think like that—to be skeptical of things you hear, to consider how you would cite sources for views you espouse, to rank your knowledge into levels of corroborated veracity, to think about why you know what you know—is one of the most important, rewarding, and societally useful things you can do. As he himself would almost certainly freely admit: if Bill Burr can do it, then why can’t you?