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Your treating this as a scientific issue, but it's not. This is is social issue: there are people that just don't believe anything anymore.
by sddfd 9y ago
Your treating this as a scientific issue, but it's not.
This is is social issue: there are people that just don't believe anything anymore.
- jacquesm 9y agoNo, you've got that backwards. There are people that will believe anything.
- pjc50 9y ago.. so long as it's not the thing that those other people believe. Tribalism over reality.
- zaarn 9y agoWell, they believe one thing and then they claw onto that belief like their life depends on it.
- marcosdumay 9y agoAlmost like if it was a religion.
- giomasce 9y agoIt's not about believing everything or nothing, I think: it is more about how to filter things you believe. Believing something is a way to be part of a group, and it seems to me that most humans (including me) tend to feel better when they are recognized as a part of a group. Conspiration theories offer an easy way to feel part of a very well identified group (made even stronger by the sensation of being a somewhat repressed minority): for some people this can be much more rewarding than accepting the rigor of actual science.