be credulous

Says Bergstrom: “Our message is very much not that people should not believe in anything. Our message is the opposite: it’s don’t be credulous.”

Some of the titles found there will be scholarly, such as works by Mircea Eliade, Frances Yates, Ioan Culianu, Carlo Ginzburg and Ronald Hutton, while others will be credulous and partisan, like those by Eliphas Levi, Margaret Murray, Montague Summers and Gerald Gardner, but all of them share one common element: They approach magic as a system of belief.

Perhaps you find her advocacy for guns in schools due to the ever-present grizzly threat to be credulous.

“There are an alarming number of people who tend to be credulous and form beliefs based on the latest thing they’ve read, but that’s not the wider problem,” said Michael Lynch, a professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut.

Of course, it may be credulous to take Roberts at his word.