The Reference Frame: Skeptics, TRF stigmatized in a PSU course

Don't tell me that it's not obvious from the wording of the questions that this is where the students are being pushed. Don't tell me it is not obvious from the questions what the instructor thinks and what he wants the students to think.

This is really bad. Needless to say, the students do exactly what the instructor instructs them to do. In fact, in their struggle to achieve better grades, they add some positive feedbacks, too. There is not a single glimpse of rational reasoning or scholarly work in the class paper; the whole paper is all about the very same ad hominem attacks that you may find in every other cesspool. They essentially answer the first question, whether the peer-reviewed papers are always reliable, by saying "No, they're not reliable because skeptics can sometimes get into them, too." I kid you not. They don't even want to admit the possibility that "reliable" could mean something else than "alarmist'.