Why We are Doomed
Episode MMCV

Because folks who reason like this vote...

Sigh.

You know, more Americans believe that ESP is real than believe that evolutionary theory is true, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence against the former and in support of the latter.

On thing that might help people think more clearly about evil turtles, Jesuses-in-tortillas and related phenomena would be a very short course on pareidolia. So here it is.

I mean, if people can't think clearly about cases this easy, how can they have any hope of understanding e.g. issues about Social Security? Am I overreacting again?

(P.s., I don't consider myself an ally of scientistic "skeptics" (nor of real skeptics, for that matter), but they do get many things right.)