As far as I can tell It's compelling because people tend to dislike uncertainty and making up stories and hypotheticals can feel like knowing. I don't have an i

As far as I can tell It's compelling because people tend to dislike uncertainty and making up stories and hypotheticals can feel like knowing. I don't have an issue with that per se, but the pretend "knowledge" tends to get intertwined with all sorts of claims that actually matter, and that bothers me.