Some thoughts/clarifications

[ALawPoker]

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[your cutting your own throat by not accepting there are super-intelligent, convincing people out there who support it and are able to provide a 'logical defense of it'

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There are super smart people who make their livings as cable news anchors. When there exist certain misconceptions there exists demand to feed those misconceptions. The smartest bears will find a way to do that in a satisfying way (and the laws of social darwinism are such that often the best way to do this is to actually believe it yourself... so the people who have some deeply seated misconception but also a great ability to defend it will be the ones that are selected).