Now it is quite possible that 10% or so of any population sample are merely dumber than dirt - I mean really silly-stupid and have IQs only a rock would admire. OK. They are forgiven. Nature sometimes doesn't play fair.
These, however, are people that have been lied to and they swallowed it hook line and sinker. These are folks who probably like gossip and believe what is in the National Enquirer to be fact and fact checked. Read the column.
Here is Tom Lehrer from the 60s to remind you about "accuracy":