Why Are Intelligent People So Easily Tricked?
‘As a rule, I have found that the greater brain a man has, and the better educated, the easier it has been to mystify him.’ So said master illusionist Harry Houdini. He said it during his spat with Sherlock Holmes’ creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle over the latter’s belief in seances and fairies. Despite being a literary genius, Conan Doyle nevertheless had some foolish ideas…