This is a very low quality article and the arguments seem to be very poor and don't really align with the data.
Maybe I'm just old enough to remember there was a period of time when people actually thought stigmatizing unintelligence was the only way to have a healthy society and a second and third industrial revolution happened; this paper seems ridiculous.
It's worth noting, also, that The Lancet contributed much to global vaccine hesitancy with its historical lack of quality control. We might not be in the present situation if not for this:
Maybe I'm just old enough to remember there was a period of time when people actually thought stigmatizing unintelligence was the only way to have a healthy society and a second and third industrial revolution happened; this paper seems ridiculous.
It's worth noting, also, that The Lancet contributed much to global vaccine hesitancy with its historical lack of quality control. We might not be in the present situation if not for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lancet#Andrew_Wakefield_an...