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True. However, I think it's possible for you to develop the ability to realize that something you said or thought is "something I seem to recall having heard somewhere". It might be helpful to engage in contentious debate so that you internalize an expectation of, "oh hell, I'm going to get challenged on that and I'm not sure where I picked it up."
In one study mentioned in the article, people thought that the information they remembered was from the CDC -- they just forgot whether the information was true or false. The problem is not that just that we forget where we learned something, but that we forget that it is false.
That's within my point. I was using synecdoche to refer to a larger category of possible problems for which I have no nice description. Maybe it would help if I added "and things of that sort".