>It's primarily the uneducated who fall for nonsense arguments We have to move away from this idea that level of education == intelligence. Historically, this

>It's primarily the uneducated who fall for nonsense arguments We have to move away from this idea that level of education == intelligence. Historically, this was probably true, since there was no economic benefit for education beyond primary school. The people who ended up in universities would have to have been strongly intrinsically motivated to learn and discover, likely because those activities played to one of their strengths (high IQ). The world today is much different; there are high economic returns to completing formal education even if one is not naturally inclined to do that. My guess would be that people who are more intelligent, while not immune to falling in with cults or mass movements or any other wrongheaded idea, are going to be quicker to observe what is happening to them and modify their beliefs or behavior accordingly. Aside: why is parent being down voted?