Yesterday was Charles Darwin's birthday. People celebrate the evidence of evolution.

Surely, among a few of those well educated people, were individuals who had to declare bankruptcy - even though the evidence had been on the books (in the form of rather unclear transactions) for some time.  Can and does happen, when people go into business together.  Years roll by, and things seem good, the partners get along well - the two families have a history of going on ski trips and cruises together. 

And although one of the men has been saying and doing things, here and there for the last year or so, that don't quite add up, the other business partner assumed male menopause, or whatever, and simply had no idea the phrases, facial expressions were warnings, that the man was trouble waiting to happen.

The (much lauded) evidence undeniably came in.  And it's too late.  Mr.male-meno has left his wife (and children in a lurch) and took off with most of the company's profits.

In short, people ignore/misinterpret evidence all the time.