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Even firmly held beliefs should succumb to strong factual evidence. A fanatic is someone who won't listen to evidence at all.

Take Laffer economics; a perfect record of failure, except for a tiny margin around 70% taxation (which we haven't had since Eisenhower) and a small decrease actually stimulates, yet universities are loaded with tenured economists teaching this rubbish because the billionaires like it.

This Rob person says that a man who says who identifies as a woman is a woman and anyone disagreeing is "transphobic." That's seven miles down the road from stupid. That isn't a strongly held belief.

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