thinking, new "Einsteins"

     When people give me a glimpse into how they think I make a note of it. Most of my notes are about errors in thinking. For instance, I have been told that if you say a thing a thousand times, it's true. I have also been told that if more people believe one thing than another, then that thing is true. No room for epistemological doubt.  That means how do you (or we) know that? And, could it be false?  For example, if you say that 2+2=5 a thousand times, does it?  No, of course not. If more people believe that 2+2=5 than believe that 2+2=7, does 2+2=5?  No, of course not. 2+2+4, an absolute truth, if you will, demonstrable through the classic logical argument by definition (as in what is 2? what is 4? what is plus?).
     The same people who expound the above theories of "truth" have been taught to repeat that "all truth is relative"--meaning that there is no such thing as truth, really. Some of them are convinced that Einstein "proved" this--yes, with the theory of relativity. One of the canards that makes part of this set is that Einstein also proved that the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line. If you hear a rumbling, it may be Einstein rolling over in his grave. The "proof" that the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line is said to be that Einstein posited that light may bend, or curve, to go around a large object, such as a planet. The proponents of this theory refuse to see that this has nothing to do with the shortest distance between two points--which is still a straight line. If they would stop spouting pseudo-erudition for a living instant and think--that going around something is not a straight line; that Einstein, and physics, have not redefined "straight line" as the path that light takes, or may take; that the definition of "shortest distance" is not "the path that light takes"; that none of this has anything to do with "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line"--they might take a first step on the road to reality.

Suggestion--Find out where some of this is learned. I believe it is what is passing for remedial education in our prison system.