I read "Thinking: Fast and Slow" something like 7 years ago now and while I wouldn't be able to give you a direct account of the ideas I've taken away from it at this point, I wonder how much partially or completely incorrect ideas on thinking I internalized from it.
Obviously I can now adjust my mental model but pop sci still feels a bit like a mine field for the quality of thought I may be taking away from it. I just started "The Selfish Gene" and this post has me wary of the quality of it even though just like Fast And Slow it's fairly critically acclaimed.
I think if anything in the last few years I've found myself being highly skeptical of most claims and ideas (which is also a balancing act, but largely good) which wasn't necessarily the case when I was reading Fast and Slow instead committing a common sin and taking the fact the author was a well regarded practitioner in their field at face value.
I guess the point of my comment here is I find that without taking (or really having the) the time to follow every idea to it's foundations and given there are an incredible number of ideas being thrown around openly and with little barrier to entry having to rely on some type of illogical filter and tendency towards your own biases is required just to filter down to a smaller set of ideas that at least seem plausible. The issue with that as we see on a day to day basis is that most people's filter (including my own given the critique of this book) sucks and we wind up with a bunch of plausible but incorrect ideas being treated as fact and propagated throughout the world. It would be nice if finding some kind of objective truth didn't require turning seeking that truth into a life mission.
It's also something to be said that most people operate on these faulty models throughout life to great success by conventional standards so it's not like knowing some set of objective truths, if they're there in the first place (I'm not entirely convinced everything has an objective truth), is a pre-requisite to a happy, successful or fulfilling life -- they may even be the opposite. I just have always found that unpalatable and hope we find ways to think better.