Famous atheists mocked them and then capitulated themselves to the mysteries of the spirit world: like Annie Besant, a social reformer who ended up as a credulous theosophist.
There's a difference between trusting someone because you have good reason to believe them and being gullible-that's easy to deceive because you trust and believe people too quickly.
Maybe I can make a series out of it, and call it something like " New Studies that can help with your gains but disclaimer it's only one study so take it with a grain of salt Sundays."
Cynics would probably tell you that the opposite of cynicism is gullibility, blindly trusting other people, and that cynicism is a sort of wisdom, a hard-earned sense that, in fact, people cannot be trusted.
It began by my asking her whether Miss Pole's story of the twin-brothers were true; it sounded so wonderful a likeness, that I should have had my doubts, if Miss Pole had not been unmarried.
Another patient might equally well complain that her neighbours were combining to slander her and persecute her, and yet one might be cautious about believing this statement.