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When he uttered that lie on Feb. 28, 2020, he set the stage for his followers to reject scientific recommendations and health guidelines, including vaccines, and to disbelieve the science going forward.

This may qualify as the most misunderstood or disbelieved fact in modern-day America: No matter what cable TV and social media may tell you, crime is a lot lower now than in decades past.

"That you can drop a person in the sea with a life jacket in a war zone was something people automatically chose to disbelieve," Mr Gonsalves said.

From across the coffee table, their eyes widened, and their mouths skewed into disbelieving shapes.

He said he believed the boy was genuinely concerned about the knife, and agreed he had "no reason to disbelieve him".