"An alarming number of citizens, in America and around the world, are embracing crazy, even dangerous ideas. These ideas include the beliefs that vaccines cause autism, that the scientific consensus on climate change is a hoax, and that 5G cellular networks contributed to the spread of COVID-19. According to Nadler and Shapiro, the problem with those who hold such beliefs is not that they are unintelligent or uneducated."
"Nadler and Shapiro are not alone in thinking that liberal democracies are experiencing an epidemic of willful ignorance. In the last decade, many observers have lamented the advent of a "post-truth" era, an era in which a growing number of citizens have little or no interest in the truth and would rather believe what is convenient for them to believe than what they have reason to believe."
An alarming number of citizens in America and worldwide embrace dangerous false beliefs such as vaccines causing autism, climate change being a hoax, and links between 5G networks and COVID-19. The core problem lies not in lack of intelligence or education but in willful irrationality: individuals form and hold beliefs irrationally and irresponsibly, even knowingly. Observers characterize the phenomenon as a "post-truth" era in which many people prioritize convenient beliefs over evidence. If many deniers are genuinely in denial, then beliefs may follow decisions rather than drive them, complicating assessments of how dangerous such beliefs actually are.
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