I can't think of a group of bigger morons. They have to be doing it just for the attention factor. However, what they don't understand is that they look and sound like morons.
moron
[mawr-on, mohr-]
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noun
1.
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
2.
Psychology. (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive)
a person of borderline intelligence in a former and discarded classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50 to 69.
"Moron" used to be an actual clinical term. There were others, assigned to different IQ levels. In this case they may actually be intelligent people - but like savants, there is one area that just doesn't make connections.
Impossible for me to understand how anyone in the year 2018 could still be clinging to the flat earth theory.