Utilizing critical thinking allows for better boundaries while simultaneously allowing yourself the opportunity to have your mind changed. Much of digital communication has been set to binary choices. We choose sides, friends, family and attitudes about data, based on this or that, for or against, and much less based on actual facts and the ability of them to be held up to peer review and criticism. The hidden agendas of those proclaiming facts should be carried forward, the experts should have credentials supporting their claims of expertise, and results of the facts should be repeatable. Being able to understand what makes data factual is a commodity that should be valued and respected as much as intellect itself. The STEM community has long-since held this standard and it has been crucial in ensuring that the direction we go in finding answers as well as advancing research is valid and sustainable. As such, those who are able to think critically, know when the data, study design, authors, deviations, study design, and biases are taken into consideration, that there can be potential problems with all research. In light of that, critical thinkers also know that these potential problems allow us to be open to new ideas, new data, new points of view. What's fantastic about this is that critical thinkers can objectively look at stated facts, determine whether they are potentially accurate or not, and then make adjustments to their own logic, accordingly. The ability to set your ego aside and learn something new that may contradict your own beliefs is important in individual and societal growth while setting clear boundaries about what is accepted as fact. We should be raising critical thinkers to challenge or uphold everything in our individual lives to keep us all safe from misinformation.