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31 Jan 2010, 1:02 pm

Orwell wrote:
I know you and Vex are just being tongue-in-cheek, but I'll respond anyways. Is there good evidence to believe that gullibility is an inherited trait? And if it is, in order for such a scheme to work, we would need a widespread outbreak of a fatal (or perhaps fertility-impacting) disease that is easily treated with conventional medicine, and convince people that they need to take an either/or approach between homeopathy and medicine.

Well, if gullibility is a personality trait, then I would strongly suspect a high rate of heritability. Most personality traits have about 50% of the variation explained by genetics.

And Orwell, despite all of the difficulties, it will pay off in the end.