I can learn from smart but evil people. That’s why I read some of them.

But most people can’t even learn from smart but virtuous people. Most people just don’t care about evidence at all, and will trumpet some bogus finding that’s obviously false over mounds of available and well-gathered substantiation if the shaky and incorrect data comports with what they and their tribe wish to believe.

You can see this with climate change, the efficacy of facemasks, the excessive mortality rates due to Covid-19 and in so many other areas.

Just as with the truth of how very well propaganda works, the fact that people just do not give a single fuck about evidence was something I only really learned well and truly as an adult. Both were very disappointing revelations and keep me apart from other people more than any other factors.