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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Heavy misinterpretation of publicly available information is one.

    Another reason is more social. I find a lot of these people want to feel important or smart by “knowing” something that others don’t.

    A lot of these people will jump on the bandwagon of whatever is said by fellow conspricists they’re watching on YouTube.

    They also learn the “gotcha” questions which allow them to fall into the rabbit hole in the first place.

    Yes, Kent Hovind, a dog will only produce another dog, but that doesn’t disprove evolution!

    No, Eric Dubay, I can’t see the curvature of the Earth from an aeroplane, but that doesn’t mean the Earth is a fucking pancake!

    Another curious thing is how a disproportionate number of conspricists are religious. I can’t speak for other religions, but so many Christians will invoke the Bible into their arguments.

    Maybe it’s partly a sunk cost fallacy on their part. Spending so much of their youth believing complete fiction that it’s easier to deny reality than accept their Bible isn’t an accurate depiction of historical events.