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Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? Here's what the science says (www.psypost.org)
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[โ€“] Rottcodd@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What?

Where on earth did you get the idea that I'm trying to ascribe conspiracy theory belief to any specific cause, much less a single one? That's the exact dynamic I'm criticizing.

[โ€“] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I got it from your comment. In the study, they were interested in many possible causes. They were surprised that almost all of them played a big role. They might have expected half to be meaningless. No-one was expecting a single cause. But expecting a single cause would still not make them prone to conspiracy. Some things do have a single cause.