Pandemic of Stupidity: How to Get Out it?

Why do intelligent people defend bad decisions, forward false claims, obey absurd authority, and repeat mistakes that harm everyone?Pandemic of Stupidity is not a book about "stupid people." It is an investigation into the correctable patterns that turn ordinary reasoning into collective folly.From myths, manias and famine denial to algorithms, coaching-centre claims, digital-arrest scams, trading hype and family WhatsApp wars, C. H. Ramrathnam traces how bias, fear, status, identity, incentives and information overload distort judgement.The book's recurring Reasoning Autopsy exposes the claim, hidden assumption, missing evidence, emotional trigger, damage and point of intervention. A Special Focus on India and Special Guide for Gen Z translate the analysis into everyday situations involving families, classrooms, examinations, AI, social media, money and public life.Includes Rationality Mirror self-assessments, the Five-Minute Claim Audit, a Stat Sanity Checklist, premortem and red-team tools, and a thirty-day critical-thinking practice.The opposite of stupidity is not intelligence. It is the ability to detect error, accept correction, and redesign the conditions that produced it.