The result “blows the lid off of this idea” that such beliefs are held by only a fringe population of individuals who are uninformed or ideologically driven, says David Bersoff, head of research at the Edelman Trust Institute. “This is not like a small problematic group.”
Yeah, so that accounts for the grey being reasonable (although in some of these a arguably too large, if things are well established and people are unsure that’s because of groups spreading uncertainty)
The article is mostly focused on that red bar though
I’m not sure if 1/4 to 1/3 of people being gullible is staggering to me