Yeah, Im not sure the meme tracks. There is a good book from 2010 called Not for Profit, and discusses how Uni and College only focusing on acedemics like science and course work geared to jobs, while removing the humanities such as art and literature, is creating non-critical thinkers.

These non critical thinkers will be good workers, easily led, and not able to formulate their own ideas.

This may seem counter intuitive for science, but science can be just rules you follow to get a result, without having to think deeper and come up with new ideas.

Anecdotally, I know a person that is brilliant in an academic science role, but always falls for conspiracy theories and makes broad leaps in logic.

Smart people can be stupid.

Wait, what? Definitely not unrelated. In fact, there’s a huge inverse relationship between educated scientists and belief in flat-earth, pseudoscience, anti-vaxx crap. They’re even less likely to be religious.

There’s a reason education attainment predicted better than nearly anything whom someone voted for in 2024, too.

In fact I’d say this extends far beyond mere correlation and the causal relationship is pretty obvious.

Oh, they are related because of science field, But I think you can do okay with the common sense too.