The only thing that’s necessary when disbelief is suspended is that the narrative remain acceptably internally consistent.
"Acceptably" is holding it together there. Do you mean everyone has a range of what's acceptable? I agree with that, in that there's may be some personal threshold before they snap out of it and say "Hang on, this doesn't make sense any more".
They don’t hate the planet, but they don’t care for it either. What they hate most are liberals—they want to see them cry. Liberals are over-represented in science, so they reject science because that makes liberals’ hair catch fire.
Yes, and yes.