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There are the shamefaced former members, who confess their gullibility as a kind of penance; there are the cockamamie claims on which the belief system is based.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

In the aftermath of the infamous tech-stock bubble of 1999-2000, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNeely mocked the gullibility of stock-market investors who had chased stocks to ridiculous levels.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 7, 2025

Whatever the true reason for Fulcher’s departure, the alarming part should be Hegseth’s gullibility, inexperience and glaring ineptitude in both his hiring and ousting of Fulcher.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2025

"I feel great pain and shame that my gullibility and my naivety led to such catastrophic consequences. I didn't want to hurt anyone," Trepova told the court this week, quoted by Reuters.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024

After all, it’s not the outlandishness of its conclusions that makes something a pseudoscience: lucky guesses, serendipity, bizarre hypotheses, and even an initial gullibility all play a role in science as well.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos