I don't feel that I'm particularly unreasonable. I'm certainly interested in understanding your perspective.

I hope I'm not misinterpreting your statements, but it appears you agree that information is rooted in trust. In fact, you say it's philosophically so, while I make a weaker claim about practicality.

A paradox would arise if I were to say "information is based in trust, trust no one". But I would instead say "information is based in trust, empirically evaluate your basis for trust".

I'm not sure I recognize what's dangerous about the claim, or what your proposed alternative is.