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Dumb Genius

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Subtitle: How Intelligence is sometimes its own worst enemy.

Rod Martin, Jr. claims to be an expert on the Dumb Genius syndrome, having suffered this malady on numerous occasions. This, he says, made him uncomfortably aware of the symptoms of this syndrome in all his fields of interest—from history, myth and legend, to climate science, geology, mathematics and education. This syndrome has even corrupted religion and spirituality.

The syndrome starts with knowledge and a cocky sense of sedenta...