I also feel like a lot of people that believe in crackpot theories are contrarians. It feels good to them to go against the status quo. A subset of these peop

I also feel like a lot of people that believe in crackpot theories are contrarians. It feels good to them to go against the status quo. A subset of these people are trolls, but not all of them. I've noticed that these people seem to feel an exhilaration at their discoveries, like it makes them special.