AN UNBELIEVABLE PLACE

 A follow up on yesterday's post regarding Edgar Allan Poe's advice to "believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see":

I was listening to a podcast this afternoon as I did some painting in Melissa's office at work. It was a longform conversation between Dr. Jordan Peterson and Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman. 

I wasn't familiar with Kaufman, but Peterson is pretty famous these days in certain circles and I find him a fascinating individual. He is a clinical psychologist, a bestselling author and a university professor. 

The guy is super intelligent and I was following along with about 50% of the podcast conversation this afternoon. Fascinating stuff about IQ tests and cognitive studies and whatnot.

And then I run across this retweet from Dr. Peterson on Twitter:

"Wow."

Now, maybe I am just a born skeptic, but I took one look at this place and thought, "That's fake". So I looked at the comments beneath the original posting from "Archaeo - History" and half the commenters were saying they wanted to buy a plane ticket and half were saying "photoshop!".

The photoshop crowd was correct. Someone posted this photo as proof:

Sorry, Dr. Peterson.

It just goes to show:

1) You can't always believe your own eyes

and

2) It has nothing to do with intelligence. 

We are trusting creatures, for better or for worse.