For reasons related to what Benedict Evans calls out here (which is very much worth a read),it’s time to develop a good understanding of Gell-Mann Amnesia.

Per Wiktionary:

The phenomenon of a person trusting newspapers for topics which that person is not knowledgeable about, despite recognizing the newspaper as being extremely inaccurate on certain topics which that person is knowledgeable about.

Our hype detectors need to be well tuned. Testing the new on what we know is a good foundational practice.