The first step is to recognise you are being lied to, and not to accept everything unquestioningly. We may never know 100% truth - and that applies to scientific investigation, historical investigation, criminal investigation, and political investigation. Science (my own area of critical thinking) tests by forming hypotheses that can be tested. They all test by consistency, evidential support or otherwise, and logic. The practice of law includes training in testing evidence.
As rational adults, perhaps not trained in any of these, we should at least be asking critical questions, and looking at the answers we are given, as to whether or not they make sense.
The first step is to recognise you are being lied to, and not to accept everything unquestioningly. We may never know 100% truth - and that applies to scientific investigation, historical investigation, criminal investigation, and political investigation. Science (my own area of critical thinking) tests by forming hypotheses that can be tested. They all test by consistency, evidential support or otherwise, and logic. The practice of law includes training in testing evidence.
As rational adults, perhaps not trained in any of these, we should at least be asking critical questions, and looking at the answers we are given, as to whether or not they make sense.