Humans are social animals with an intrinsic and deep evolutionary understanding that their survival is strongly connected to their alignment with the group they associate with.
Thus they 'believe' whatever the group believes and strongly resist anything to the contrary.
Libertarians included.

Solomonsatoshi

The response was along the lines of "you can get studies that say anything".

I love that approach in general, because then you can't know shit and should be very humble about every odd thing, 

 the very thing you're aggressively trying to debunk. Also, what's your source of knowledge/wisdom/basic standing ground if all studies are intrinisically wacky/crap/unbelievable

ideasfromtheedge

My doctor friend won't believe anything I say about cholesterol, saturated fats

Signal312

> The response was along the lines of "you can get studies that say anything".

I love that approach in general, because then you can't know shit and should be very humble about every odd thing, _including_ the very thing you're aggressively trying to debunk. Also, what's your source of knowledge/wisdom/basic standing ground if all studies are intrinisically wacky/crap/unbelievable