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This article, published by Scientific American (September 2002), explores how smart people can believe weird and silly things. The article comes to the conclusion that our beliefs are shaped more by our environment than our understanding of the scientific process.
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- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)