BasqueArch
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Goes to show you, even highly educated people can be conned into believing stupid crap.
I remember reading about a disorder where to all public appearances, the person functions normally and competently. Inside, a boiling mess of psychosis.
Also, not a clinical disorder, everyone is composed of a combination of subjective preferences (I like chocolate ice cream best, doctors and nurses that smoke), and subjective and objective beliefs.
For some, subjective beliefs (my god will heal me, fundamentalist biologists, the US went to war to steal the natural resources of Iraq and Afghanistan, reptilian overlords) trump objective (math, science, logic) evidence because it pleases them before all else.
A couple of years ago I met a noted biochemist at Borders. Checked him out later. We talked for about an hour, very interesting,smart guy.
As we were walking to our cars, he said " Did you know that man didn't walk on the moon? The flag was waving even though there's no air on the moon, and the shadows ....."
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