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That’s spot on.

You see the instructor to instructor perpetuation of terrible material in anything that requires instruction. The survival industry is loaded with it. Book after book is published and class after class is taught with the same wrong regurgitated info from over 100 years ago. I read an NRA woodsman article about water purification a few months ago that was so wrong it made my soul hurt. My hope is it was a typo, but the same “typo” persisted so I doubt it.

You make another great point that it takes two people, teacher and student. If a student isn’t evaluating the instruction they are receiving against a realistic framework then anything seems legit. There definitely exists a personal responsibility for determining the quality of material. It is easy to be caught up by a charismatic person who seems like they know, but an objective step back reveals the holes. I experienced that first hand with Chris P., there are many reasons I jumped that ship and stayed here (that could be its own thread lol).

For your last point… unfortunately if they think they are receiving good instruction they likely don’t have the instinct to know they are in a bad situation until it’s too late.