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My inclination is to pigeon hole exDemMom as sophomoric. A "wise fool". She's learned a catechism of biologic knowledge, and is smart enough to have integrated its elements to make sense of them within their own confines (a skill just beyond sophomoric, I suppose).

However, there is a world of science beyond her expertise that she won't entertain, no matter how compelling. She's accepted her level of proficiency as unassailable (It was in a book, it must be true!!) by anyone who's learned a different approach to the subject. She is blind to the possibility that what she accepts as fact are just models in need of a greater depth of understanding, models waiting to be reworked once research that conflicts with the model seems to explain the real world more accurately. She seems to hold that her conclusions are superlative to any suggestions by mere mortals.