The corrupt and fascist executive branch and Senate and their backers in the "alt-right" today traffics in psychological manipulation, they'll want you to reject truth that is not line with their "version" of it. They're more than OK with pseudo-science like "racial science", conversion therapy, heartbeat bills, using credit history as a barrier to entry for jobs, and more. If they could bring back phrenology, they would.
At a certain point, we got to trust ourselves too. That's another thing of psychological manipulation and the gaslighting I keep seeing mentioned, it's all to make us not trust ourselves.
I'm trained as a sociologist, I have spent over a decade learning about double standards, disparities, social stratification, pseudoscience, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, stigma, the effects and 'functions' of poverty, etc. I've trained myself as an activist, I've also spent over a decade learning how to dismantle far right groups and how to deplatform people and organizations with right wing terrorist tendencies, with a lot of that learning "on the field".
I trust myself. I am going to keep applying what I've learned to the world and now... now I am finding out and learning more ways to apply all the lessons I've learned over the years.