No use confusing me with the facts!

"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already: but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." - Leo Tolstory, 1897

From the opening of "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" by Michael Lewis, the story behind the sub-prime meltdown.