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Reference, please. I defy the implied claim that "Physicists asked to evaluate paranormal claims do worse than the average person". I bet 6:1 against this.
and if I had a dollar for every average idiot who sleepwalked straight into an obvious scam I would make a lot more money.
Project Alpha by James Randi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Alpha
Scientists tend to be trusting and naive, since neither nature nor their peers are prone to lying. That's why magicians make such great skeptics -- their profession is nothing but lying!
Those sets are not disjoint.
I define "average idiot" to be disjoint from "brainy person". Does that sound reasonable?
Of course, I am sure that there are some very clever people who sleepwalked straight into a really obvious scam without even questioning it, but I am making the empirical claim that this doesn't happen as much as it does for people of below average intelligence.