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Do people have a right to believe anything they want, even if that belief is dangerous?

I read an interesting article this morning in which the author posits that we don't have the right to believe whatever we want to believe if those beliefs fly in the face of facts ("The earth is flat!") or are morally repugnant ("Ethnic cleansing is a reasonable political solution."). What are your thoughts on the issue?

https://aeon.co/ideas/you-dont-have-a-right-to-believe-whatever-you-want-to

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SmartKat · 61-69, F

You can’t physically get inside their brain and know for sure what they really believe, though.

That’s why I question the whole concept of religious conversions. Nobody except the person themself is ever going to know for sure what he REALLY thinks.

What if you thought you were a member of a church, and somehow you became able to read minds; and you discovered that nobody in your church actually believed. What would that do to your religion?