From the article

"The ability to set emotion aside and dispassionately assess information is seemingly long gone. Instead of a systematic, logical process in which research and critical thinking is used to evaluate information, discarding false or incredible data while assimilating solid, truthful data, a new process has emerged — and it has largely ruined a good portion of the patriot movement.


This new process is based wholly on a set of beliefs used to assess information that are held to like religious dogma. "

Yup.