How do smart people fall for confidence tricks like grandparent, lottery, and romance scams? How do smart people buy into Ponzi schemes and crypto-ATM cons? How do smart people believe totally unfounded theories about vaccinations, ethnic conspiracies, the Denver Airport is the Illuminati’s headquarters, a pizza shop in Washington, DC, is the center of a pedophile cabal, 5G causes cancer and COVID-19, and airplane exhaust trails are filled with chemicals? How do smart people vote for leaders who espouse ridiculously unfounded theories and fall for the same types of scams listed above?
I don’t know all the reasons, but the following video addresses the topic. Our friends Lincoln and Twain introduce the topic with the help of their new extraterrestrial friend.
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