What if there is no such thing as general intelligence, or all inte...

What if there is no such thing as general intelligence, or all intelligence has some domain-specificity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_specificity)? In a thread elsewhere (/posts/e10af260d37f0138877f005056264835) on various false beliefs across the political spectrum --- pseudoscience, occult, denialism, fascism, and the like, one participant's initial position was that "You need to be stupid to believe in any of this." Not necessarily. Another possibility is of their having low truth valance. There are people who are intelligent, but who find it convenient or expedient to ignore or minimise truth, especially where some explicitly false belief becomes a strong marker for tribal affiliation or loyalty demonstration. Some of Adam Curtis’s work (Hypernormalisation, Bitter Lake) delves into this, though there are also other explorations of the notion. My interlocutor then claimed "They are smart in some ways, but very stupid in other[s]." Which my position. Or much of it. Again...