It’s pretty common to come across someone online claiming they’re just too smart to ever be fooled by conspiracies/cults (religious, political, commercial), but it’s actually really important not to assume intelligence is all you need to avoid it. Everyone should be aware of and have a guard up against tactics of undue influence. It might be easier to reach the conspiracy/cult believers if we could say ‘look, it’s not that you’re stupid’, but it seems like this article is suggesting the rest of the sentence is ‘it’s just that you’re bad at thinking’, which isn’t a lot better… ha.