Right there with you.
Sadly, too many people don't put in the mental effort to verify what they're told.
I suspect we're all susceptible to this to greater/lesser degrees, and subject-dependent. I just can't figure out my own blind spot around this.
Front/right arm/all of one.
I mean we had the Dutch East Indies Corp doing it's thing 300 years ago. It's not really new, and it's frustrating people don't see it.