it's not co-workers. it's the reviewers of my research manuscripts. it's still surprising to me that PhD-holding professionals, most of them professors, can so easily reject facts and ideas that disagree with what they were taught to be true. so unlike you lot, i have to deal with it there and here ( :
there's always the hope that one or two of the smarter ones will see the light. here that would be folks like you or OP or Doc Sarcasm. you clearly have awareness and logic, but you value political ties more than being right. i think that's the main difference today between conservatives and moderates.