It seems like everyday I hear 
some tidbit of trendy information 
repeated as the truth

and the person repeating
has only heard it from someone else,
someone who thought that they were right. 

The topic has been left unexplored,
the knowledge not in question
repeated as the truth
wholly unexplored
unearned and unchallenged. 

I don’t see the point in correcting.

I don’t want to hurt the fragile egos of the masses, I don’t need to say “Have you considered…?” or “My training and my experience have shown me something different”

There are too many people who think they are authorities, and too many people listening to them and believing that they are. I have always attempted to test every theory, always questioned any truth, particularly if I am to repeat it without a disclaimer.
Do not accept what is handed to you. Do not accept what you do not know for yourself. 

Do not even accept that your own mind has not skipped this important step.
And even if you do test, do consider there may be more knowledge, additional truth
that you are unaware of.

Before you open your mouth
to spread one more fact you heard from a person who heard from a person on the internet,

consider that it is just a theory. An untested theory. No matter how apparent was the authority. It is often the authority who is posing as authority. In fact, this is what authority is mostly,

-posing.