Believing obvious lies is orthogonal to IQ, as stated before. It‘s not that people are getting “dumb”, but that people are falling into politically-focused echo

Believing obvious lies is orthogonal to IQ, as stated before. It‘s not that people are getting “dumb”, but that people are falling into politically-focused echo chambers and believe stupid things because “trusted” people say so. I mean just look at how many people, even doctors and researchers who should know better, believed the, often contradictory, statements Fauci made during Covid. I mean there was and still is genuine belief that face masks of any kind stop you from getting sick, when that’s simply not reality. Only surgical masks applied properly provide the right seal, but even those are meant to mostly prevent others from getting sick. Yet we still have people who believe they’re some holy barrier against illness.