I've been toying with peoples lack of imagination all my life. The cognitive ability test involves verbal, numerical, abstract and logical tests. Lets call them people with higher disposable income, at least some leisure time and of course head-space. Not very interesting. The opposite however (people with insufficient money, no time for anything and no room in their head) doesn't make a lack of patience with "bullshit" very surprising. (what they perceive as bullshit)

My experiment (more of a stress test) for academics is to debate them in the context of Mathmagics being nonsense (-2*-2=4 ! LOL!), Physics being nonsense (Conservation of energy? So, no universe?), Ufology and alien abduction, flat-earth, Perpetual motion, Water fueled cars, Fomenco's new chronology, More advanced historic civilizations, Forbiding Archeology, Out of body experiences, Near death experiences, Remote viewing, Reincarnation, Royal Rife, etc etc.

I pretend not to have an opinion on those and insist that we should let the evidence speak for it self and let the lack of evidence suspend a conclusion.

For a lot of trained professionals the mere mention of [say] Sheldrake renders them unable to debate.

It isn't a prank, don't mean to troll anyone. It is an exercise in objectivity. History and science are full of truly hilarious stories. It doesn't mean they are unworthy of debate or must be wrong.

The funniest was a NASA guy who first got really angry but when I suggested real space travel requires "impossible" physics, therefore: to dismiss impossible claims out-right is to rule out space travel - by convention. He flipped 180 degrees. A truly impressive feat that I much admire.