Why do people believe conspiracy theories? Because they are presented with some data, they analyze said data, or they trust some expert who analyzes some data

Why do people believe conspiracy theories? Because they are presented with some data, they analyze said data, or they trust some expert who analyzes some data for them, and they draw their own conclusions. It's pretty freaking simple. One of my bigger hangups is that some people will say "there's no evidence for ufos". Well, there's plenty of people who say they've seen a ufo, so there's some data for you, if you reject that data, fine with me - you should probably analyze it first before you jump to conclusions, but don't say there's no evidence. This is a fact, that's a myth, this is reality that's just a theory. Nonsense! There's just data and data analysis. Draw your own conclusions.