Here are essays against skeptical, independent thought.

• 2017-02-08 by Jess Zimmerman at Slate It's Time to Give Up on Facts Or at least to temporarily lay them down in favor of a more useful weapon: emotions.
• 2020-07-30 by Ethan Siegel at Forbes You Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’ When It Comes To Science
• 2021-02-18 by Charlie Warzel at New York Times Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole: Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.
• 2021-09-23 by Al Cross Northern Kentucky Tribune Questioning authority has become too much of a good thing, and it’s killing people

Another had a similar sounding title but different content.
2014-08-08 by Dennis Hayes at The Conversation Let's stop trying to teach students critical thinking

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But there is a problem with this widespread belief. The truth is that you can’t teach people to be critical unless you are critical yourself.

He faults how teachers are teaching critical thinking rather than considering it impossible. Most of this essay is good.

1. ... may seem like it is “criticism” or acquiring a “critical perspective”, but it is actually a training in feminism or Marxism which could be done through tick box techniques.
2. “Critical thinking” means indoctrination. When teachers talk about the need to be “critical” they often mean instead that students must “conform”. ...
3. “Critical theories” are “uncritical theories”.

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