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Scientist is the perfect word for it really. It comes from an indo european root meaning to split things apart, in this sense meaning the ability to discern one thing from another.
>Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave," he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that characterizes a man as a common man. Yet the common man does choose. He chooses to adopt traditional patterns or patterns adopted by other people because he is convinced that this procedure is best fitted to achieve his own welfare. And he is ready to change his ideology and consequently his mode of action whenever he becomes convinced that this would better serve his own interests.
~Ludwig von Mises (mises.org)
@MaroonSaint and @HooBeJoo are the common man.
This is a brilliant incite but it shows its age. In the internet age there is at least one more group who fall somewhere between the nihilists and the scientists. Those that reject everything mainstream and embrace almost anything kooky. Flat earthers would be a good example. Q as well. These people can passionately reject evidence whereas NPCs passively ignore evidence
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