Conspiracy theories are attractive. At least someone's in charge of what happens, even if you don't like them. And if you look at almost anything closely enough, there are things that don't add up. Most people chalk it up to people being so fallible that two people seeing the same thing will contradict each other sooner or later if they go into enough detail. To a conspiracy theorist, those discrepancies are an indication that 'things are not as they seem'. We'll never have ALL the facts on many significant events, and that's more holes to plug in with supposition on your conspiracy connection board. The feeling that you're sleuthing out the 'real truth' from your laptop and that you're among the select few who know 'what's really going on' is very reinforcing.
We like to think we skeptics are immune, but I'm not sure anyone can be sure they'll never be pulled down a rabbit hole when so often the entrance to the burrow looks somewhat plausible (he says, really stretching the metaphor).
We like to think we skeptics are immune, but I'm not sure anyone can be sure they'll never be pulled down a rabbit hole when so often the entrance to the burrow looks somewhat plausible (he says, really stretching the metaphor).
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
