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Their problem here is one of epistemic and/or education. They've learned to respect "authority" and accept what the wise authority tells them as capital-t Truth.
What they're learning is that a) the world is complicated and has competing sets of info/emphasis, b) some men are screwballs and/or intentionally try to pull a fast one on you.
One said, "Mr. Shugard, we cannot take this anymore, this is too much. We learn in school X only to come to your classes to be taught that X is wrong and Y is right, but you are the only one who says Y is right."
Correct, friends. You're learning what "schooling" and even "society" is -- a bunch of contradictory pieces of information (some irrelevant, some important) that you now have to make sense of. Enjoy.
I'll shove some graphs and resources in another comment