Good News! Today on the phone, my older brother apologized for giving me a rack of shit about covid,..
🏆 - WINNING - 🏆
He asked if I would please send him information on how to counteract the jab. I had only asked him which company's product he got all those years ago, and his reaction to that simple question back then was just awful. We didn't speak for a long time. He was good to me when we were kids, though...so I now have some happy research to do.
Any information that you've found to be solid on that front will be most sincerely appreciated.
It's more that being educated doesn't make you intelligent or vice versa, but I would point people towards a very common cultural phenomenon that has taken the world by storm:
Fear of being wrong.
People do not want to be wrong, and so they will trend towards and often conform with the loudest (often mistaken for most numerous) voices for fear of being wrong, because if you're wrong then it means you screwed up and that's a difficult pill to swallow in the information era.
Sometimes it's not down to intelligence or education but a chip on one's shoulder.
That certainly contributes to the cognitive dissonance...they simply cannot fathom a scenario different from the one they've become comfortable with.