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Originally Posted by FuzzyLogik

Though i'm mainly talking about people who are willfully ignorant (which is the definition of being moronic). They have the facts right in front of them but they choose to believe/understand otherwise.

Take the Church of Global Warmingology for instance... There's plenty of facts that bring that whole belief system to its knees yet many people willfully choose to believe in it. And these are "smart" or even "brilliant" people - yet they are complete morons. I don't claim to know everything by any means, but simple science is enough to throw this theory (man made global warming) in the garbage bin - these very "smart" people choose to ignore it and make increasingly complicated models that have to be reworked every time they find out something else that doesn't work with it (I.E., more trees actually contributing to Global Warming.. Ozone layer is no longer being "depleted" as it was 10 years ago - lol... notice how they stopped talking about that? heh... etc).

Authentically stupid people just don't know any better, morons know better, but they ignore it and consciously choose to believe in fallacy.

willful ignorance, yes. morons, no. I think when people take on a belief system, they cease to consider the possibility that it is wrong. You can apply this to religious beliefs, scientific beliefs, whatever. Challenging a person's held belief structure is basically sacrilege, even if that belief is Atheism.

Once you believe, you ignore that which conflicts with it.

Many see my disbelief in the alarmist climate change forecasts as "willful ignorance". I see them as believers in the cult of climate change, and also willfully ignorant. They see all data differences as anomalies, while I see them as proof that the forecasts are not completely accurate. Neither of us have 'proof' that the other is wrong, which is why alarmist climate change is fallible, and always will be, until it is either proven or disproven by events (not computer models).

They ignore Al Gore's movie discrepencies by declaring that his heart is in the right place, instead of addressing the factual errors. They dismiss cold and snow as "local weather" while blaming rain and flooding in Washington on climate change. That is not a scientific conclusion, that is a belief system, and is as ridiculous as the "intelligent design" belief system that they love to demean.