For people who spend so much time to get degrees in fields that are teaching lies, I would not call that intelligent.
Do you realize how many anthropologists have absolutely no credible careers because they have spent years and decades and written papers and theories on hoaxes? Wasted their brainpower on lies and bad science, and not only that, but defending to the death, bad science? Piltdown man, Lucy, Nebraska man, any of them.
They’ve built careers around hoaxes. It’s a shame, and it isn’t intelligent. It’s a waste.