There might be, but he wasn’t going to find it overnight, which was all the time he had. I did a full, sentence-by-sentence rewrite, because he can’t afford a bad grade at this point. Careful monitoring will prevent future emergencies!
Can you at least sit him down and deprogram him? Explain that the limited data he had available was misleading and not representative of the truth. Even though the assignment is over, it’s not too late to help him research the pertinent facts, for his own benefit. His core beliefs are being formed now.