Reddit reviews SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable

Magical thinking and cognitive biases are "embedded" in our brains. You can make en effort into bypassing some, but not all.

Edit: if anyone wants to know more I recommend the book Supersense by neuroscientist Bruce Hoood

It's an article about an article about a study that isn't mentioned by name, which prevents me from going to the source.

However, I did find a blog entry by the professor leading the study who says that this newspaper article and several others substantially mis-interpreted and overgeneralized the findings.

Edit: Apparently, the study can be found in this book, which came out six months ago.

That doesn't seem to be the case. Yes, dogma must be taught, but plenty of irrationality seems to bubble up on its own.
I wouldn't take it as gospel, but Supersense is a pretty interesting read on the subject.