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Why Really Smart People Can Be Really Stupid

September 4, 2025

Before I start, I must assure the reader that I will give no contemporary example that supports the premise of the title. To do so would alienate at least half my readers, who would in outrage, proclaim that I was the best proof of the title, or even worse, that I fit only the second […]

Why Really Smart People Can Be Really Stupid

Smaller Brains

October 31, 2021

The human brain is the most complex structure known. As human-like species evolved over several million years into homo sapiens, hominid brain size tripled. Today the average human brain weighs about three pounds. Our nearest primate relative, the chimpanzee, has a brain that weighs less than a pound. Our brains constitute about 2% of body […]

On Stupidity

June 29, 2021

First God Created Stupidity. That was for practice. Then He created school boards. Mark Twain Carlo Cipolla (1922-2000) was and Italian economist and historian. In 1976 he Published The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity. He postulated five such laws. The laws are presented in graphic form below. Do not interpret the graph as indicating that […]

Quotation of the Day

October 1, 2012

The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits. Albert Einstein

About the Editor

Neil Kurtzman

Physician. Professor. Writer.

Neil A Kurtzman MD is the Grover E Murray Professor Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Internal Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock. He has combined careers in clinical medicine, education, basic research, and administration for more than 40 years.