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Well, imagine the world was such that "rational thought" (whatever you mean by it) tended to result in incorrect beliefs, and a different type of thinking (say, choosing positions randomly) always achieved better accuracy. You can't fool it either; pretending to choose beliefs randomly won't work unless you actually believe them.
...I'm having trouble imagining how such a world would work even in principle. It seems logically self-contradictory.
There is a God/simulator, and he inspects your thought processes, making the world such that rational thinking fails.