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The result “blows the lid off of this idea” that such beliefs are held by only a fringe population of individuals who are uninformed or ideologically driven, says David Bersoff, head of research at the Edelman Trust Institute. “This is not like a small problematic group.”

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[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 5 points 5 days ago

I wonder what you do about this.

I just started reading Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan, published in 1994 and the intro is basically saying the same thing but framed as curious people being more well read in Atlantis than they are in interesting recent science or critical thinking skills