In part I would say it is because facts is very rarely as clean as we would want so the norm is to mix opinion and facts in a way to create a easy to understand narrative. In addition information tend to be simplified by making things more extreme, like turning "a few" to "all" and "sometimes" to "always".
The article brings up several topics which education did not give the boy enough tools or information to properly investigate. The relation between religion and violence. The relation between religion and usury laws. Wealth statistics and distribution and the extreme amount of different way it can be presented based on different narratives. Gun laws in relation with crime statistics. Human rights and how/why there exist sex differences in the law covering rights and responsibilities for women and men during and after a pregnancy.
Those are quite complex topics and the issue as I see it is not that he was unable to determine which sources from Google is right or wrong, but that society is presenting them as easy facts with right and wrong narratives.
The article brings up several topics which education did not give the boy enough tools or information to properly investigate. The relation between religion and violence. The relation between religion and usury laws. Wealth statistics and distribution and the extreme amount of different way it can be presented based on different narratives. Gun laws in relation with crime statistics. Human rights and how/why there exist sex differences in the law covering rights and responsibilities for women and men during and after a pregnancy.
Those are quite complex topics and the issue as I see it is not that he was unable to determine which sources from Google is right or wrong, but that society is presenting them as easy facts with right and wrong narratives.