Study: The more Repubs know, the crazier they are

Let's recall the famous quote first attributed to American humorist Josh Billings and paraphrased by Ronald Reagan, among others: "It ain't ignorance causes so much trouble; it's folks knowing so much that ain't so."  Check it out:

75 percent of Republicans, but only 56 percent of Democrats, believed in at least one political conspiracy theory. But even more intriguing was the relationship between one's level of political knowledge and one's conspiratorial political beliefs. Among Democrats and independents, having a higher level of political knowledge was correlated with decreased belief in conspiracies. But precisely the opposite was the case for Republicans, where knowledge actually made the problem worse. For each political knowledge question that they answered correctly, Republicans' belief in at least one conspiracy theory tended to increase by 2 percentage points.

Well, we liberals already knew that FOX and talk radio make you stupider. Now we have proof.

Tinfoil: the official headgear of the GOP. Get yours today!

The More Republicans Know About Politics, the More They Believe Conspiracy Theories

By Chris Mooney

January 24, 2013 | Mother Jones

URL: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/conspiracy-theory-partisan-bias