Wow, I'm glad you saw the light so to speak! It's a bit sad but in science class they teach us boring facts to memorize instead of explaining how the scientific method actually works, how it solves actual problems. How modern science has plenty of mechanism to protect us as best we can from natural biases we have as humans, how important critical thinking is, having a healthy dose of skepticism and all that. We shouldn't distrust everything, but as you say we should always ask basic questions like "who's funding this?" "Who stands to benefit from this?, "Is my anger being redirected to those with power or the powerless?" "What evidence did they present to me?" etc!