But he is too simple, too ignorant, to be aware of any danger.
Such messages were also spread in printed works like Francis Herring's Pietas Pontifica (republished in 1610 as Popish Piety), and John Rhode's A Brief Summe of the Treason intended against the King & State, which in 1606 sought to educate "the simple and ignorant... that they be not seduced any longer by papists".
The facts, of course, are mostly true but there is much more to it than this simple and slightly ignorant summary.
Malaria continues to infect and kill children, many mothers remain ignorant of simple sanitation practices and of the immense value of breastfeeding, and structural weaknesses remain in the health sector.
Possibly this is an improvement since it doesn't have the unfortunate implication (as the original did) that Africans are ignorant of some simple facts in life.
He popularized the 100-point scale, which made it simple for an eager but ignorant public to compare bottles regardless of where they came from and who produced them.
It's efficient, it's sensible and it will never happen, because politicians are too ignorant of these simple ideas, too arrogant to have their ideologies questioned, and too scared – let's be generous – of hard data on their good intentions.
I would be remiss if I didn't make clear that the just adopt argument is ignorant, plain and simple.
For non-transgender journalists, covering these issues is tricky for a simple reason: We're often ignorant.
Lord George Gordon, third and youngest son of the third duke of Gordon, and brother of the fourth duke, an "ignorant young nobleman, almost simple-minded in his attitude to Catholics", was the President of the Protestant Association.
