• SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    My dad speaks seven languages and has a PhD. He has taught university-level classes on formal logic and theory of science. And his brain is so worm-infected that he has let some quack grifter convince him that vaccines are bad. After all when he was a kid they got measles and we're fine and vaccines are not "natural".

    He is 70 and has heart conditions and at the advice of this quack he has refused the vivid vaccine. The quack convinced him that if he got covid anyways he could fix it with prayer and his own homemade snakeoil medicine.

    Moral of the story: Smart people can believe some incredibly dumb shit and boomers have lead poisoning

    • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Yup. Mine also has a PH.D., worked in agricultural science for decades, won several awards for work related accomplishments, but thinks that Obama was a commie and Biden is too (and still believes some race science bullshit).

      Just because you are brilliant in one field does not make you brilliant (or even proficient) in all

      • FidelCastro [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Just because you are brilliant in one field does not make you brilliant (or even proficient) in all

        Perfect example of this is Ben Carson. The guy was a successful neurosurgeon before becoming a GOP ghoul.