I can think of a few reasons...maybe people just want to hold onto their belief, even if proven wrong, just to be stubborn and not admit they are wrong. Or it's a comforting belief, and who cares if it flies in the face of the truth? Another reason is plain old stupidity- like the people who would believe anything Jenny McCarthy has to say about ANYTHING over established medical scientists and doctors who have been proving the same thing for years. It's like if Justin Bieber said the sun revolves around the moon, there'd soon be a huge group of "activists" espousing that fallacy...And another is that science is not infallible, "facts" change as more information becomes available- like, for example, theoretical physics is a huge area that changes what is "true" about activity at the subatomic level. Things that people believed to be impossible, then get proved true in an experiment, then later, it is revealed the experiment was faulty, etc etc.
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