If you’re taking at all seriously, your critical thinking skills may already be in question.
Where did you get the idea that critical thinking skills are only be used when following a verified source?
The internet is an interesting place where all kinds of ideas/notions/opinions get posted. We can use our critical thinking skills on all of these.
If you reject any information that is outside of the mainstream opinion, you probably would have rejected, back in the day, the silly notion that Semmelweis had - about washing hands between patients. He was hounded to death by those who criticized his critical thinking skills.
Not that we should accept all without question. Q Anon may very well be a very talented LARP. I have no opinion yet, but am enjoying the search for truth.
You, on the other hand, seem to be in pursuit of ad-homimen attacks. But, perhaps I am wrong, and you are doing your best to keep me from erroneous thinking, for my own good, of course.