To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Confusion at scale is rarely cured person by person; it lifts when enough people have the equipment to check a claim for themselves. What is meant by education here is plain: reading carefully, following an argument, noticing when numbers are being used to decorate rather than to inform. Where that is thin, whoever speaks with the most confidence wins by default.

Your own part in it is small but real. Learn one thing properly rather than many things headline-deep, then teach it to somebody who asked. Two people who genuinely understand something are much harder to talk past than one.