re: Nearly half of Americans without a college degree believe covid is a conspiracy

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Those not exposed to the critical thinking required in (many if not most) college settings are more apt to believe conspiracies and BS in general.

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Bro this is pure conjecture. Where do I start? First, and I know this might be asking a lot of you, but if you think through what you said you'll see numerous holes in it. Right off the top, just because someone didn't get a degree, it doesn't mean they didn't go to college nor does it mean they weren't capable of the challenge. Some, as I, had a double whammy of not putting forth the effort as well as having other life circumstances getting in the way.

I have a very low tolerance for those who claim a degree somehow makes any aspect of someone less important based on whether they have the degree or not. Obviously there are some professions who need to have certain training such as doctors and lawyers, but that doesn't make them "better" as a person as many like to conflate.

There are a lot of farmers, for example, who are much more wise to things that happen in life than some who have nothing but a fancy degree and book knowledge. Don't fool yourself. And these salt of the earth folks have very important opinions, knowledge, character, etc...their exposed critical thinking comes in heaping spoonfuls daily working to make ends meet and keeping themselves as well as society as a whole up and running. To try to marginalize their input just because they didn't graduate college reflects more on you than them.

Let's just cut to the chase, from this post you made, and others I have seen, you feel like you are more enlightened and "better" than the rubes(I'm sure that's your thought) who have no degree.

The condescending nature of what you said in this whole post of yours alone oozes with this attitude I mentioned in my first post. You and your ilk feel more entitled to an elevated level of respect with what you opine obviously based off your attendance and completion of college, when in reality it's an exercise in self importance by trying to tear down others. Sad!

I have multiple degrees and believe it absolutely is a conspiracy, and I think that anyone who doesn't think it's a conspiracy is a completely gullible moron and/or just doesn't know what conspiracy means.

Hint: saying it's a conspiracy doesn't mean you think it's just a hoax.

There are obviously aspects of the disease, the "pandemic," and the responses to and reporting on it that are clearly the result of two or more people acting in concert to accomplish common aims (including nefarious ones).

ETA: double anonymous downvoter, why don't you come explain to me exactly how anything I said is untrue. Or just downvote like a coward.

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Around half of Americans with a high school diploma or less education (48%) say the theory is probably or definitely true,

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This confirms what I suspected.

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Your opinion is worth so much more than anyone with a “Studies” degree. This is one of the reasons we are leaving BR. We don’t want to live in a college town with such a high proportion of Marxist indoctrinated citizenry.

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That is where you are wrong buddy boy

Studying for hundreds of hours so that you pretend there are more than two sexes makes you uniquely super smart and also very educated on mask wearing.