A statement like the one in the subject line might elicit a knee-jerk reaction along the lines of “Of course we can believe things that aren’t true!”. Most of us can think of some instance or other where we believed something that seemed plausible to us, but that later turned out to be untrue. We might feel somewhat differently about the “easy” part of the statement, preferring to regard ourselves as those not so readily duped; the thinkers, the clear-headed ones, the “seekers-after-truth” segment of the wider, more gullible population. As we will explore in the Talky Bit this Sunday, all those descriptors might honestly represent something about us…and it can still be easy to believe what isn’t true. That’s the bad news. There’s good news in there as well, but I’m going to save that for Sunday.