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Comment author: Viliam 30 October 2015 05:48:43PM *  7 points [-]

Fun fact: If I want to hear the newest conspiracy theories, the best place to find them is local Mensa.

Yeah, for me the conclusion is "Mensa is not a place for intelligent debate". But still, the people there are filtered by passing independent IQ test, so they would not be wrong at believing they are the cognitive elite, for some definition thereof.

Comment author: dxu 30 October 2015 08:18:58PM 5 points [-]

Or, to put it even more succinctly, intelligence does not equate to rationality. That's something that's been hammered home time and time again.