“Research studies now project that one in five - listen to me, hard to believe - one in five heterosexuals could be dead from AIDS at the end of the next three years. That's by 1990. One in five. It is no longer just a gay disease. Believe me.” OW in 1987
Does a brilliant person fall so readily for such obvious propaganda?
Yes. They can and sometimes do. Everyone is susceptible to denial and other forms of delusion, even the highly intelligent.