Part of it is an implicit assumption that everything you read is clickbait. Enshittification of reality on the one hand, and conspiracy theory analyses on the other, make people think they're just picking between different brands of bs and so have to start with a theory of which bs is best.
I mean, there has always been an Aristotelian strain of thought that is difficult to hammer out of people because: - Human brains are flawed pattern recognition machines. - This allows people to confirm their priors easily.
The entire Austrian School of economics is based on data being noisy unlike logic, ergo when they conflict logic supercedes data. ...yeah, not exactly their biggest fan.