We despair at the likes of 9/11 truthers, Sandy Hook doubters and flat-earth believers: Why won’t they see what’s real and what’s not?īut there’s another kind of stubbornness, more rare and more lonely - the kind that saw Socrates convicted, got Galileo arrested, and cost Sir Thomas More his head. We despise Trump conspiratorialists who insist the election was rigged. We bemoan anti-vaxxers who won’t listen to reason. Bullheadedness gets a bad rap these days.
