Society faces peril when smart people believe dumb things...says the Guardian

[RoyalCorgi]

This is Gaby Hinsliffe in the Guardian, writing about the Labour candidate in Rochdale who believed a conspiracy theory about Israel.

For some reason, she hasn't thought to apply the same argument to her colleagues who believe that men can be women.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/16/rochdale-azhar-ali-israel-conspiracy-theories-labour

Let's all take a moment to enjoy the irony.

So close, so Liew.

There's a lesson in it for everyone

Except us at the Grauniad. Obvs...

I agree with the title of this thought provoking insightful article

I think it's just a reaction to weirdly turbulent times we are living at the rise of far fetched conspiracies theories mindset...

Agreed, OP.

Gurwinder Bhogal

When intelligent people affiliate themselves to ideology, their intellect ceases to guard against wishful thinking, and instead begins to fortify it, causing them to inadvertently mastermind their own delusion, and to very cleverly become stupid.

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