Sadly, that's not really true. I know some highly literate, otherwise intelligent people, who can make their way through a work as dense as R. J. Rushdoony's (

Sadly, that's not really true. I know some highly literate, otherwise intelligent people, who can make their way through a work as dense as R. J. Rushdoony's (lucid but misguided) Institutes of Biblical Law, but who still believe that vaccines are a corporate and governmental plot. I think there is a flaw in some human brains that allows healthy skepticism to become overgrown into reflexive disbelief of all commonly-accepted fact. I've argued, cajoled, ridiculed, and persuaded them, but they absolutely cannot be moved. It really breaks my heart.