There was a person I knew in college who ardently believed in a lot of popular pseudo-science myths, like the ones about vaccination, and that global warming is

There was a person I knew in college who ardently believed in a lot of popular pseudo-science myths, like the ones about vaccination, and that global warming isn't real, that it's just a conspiracy of climate scientists. In about a year, that person will be awarded a PhD in Aerospace Engineering. The cognitive dissonance is astonishing to me.