I'm wondering what part of human nature makes these things possible. Why are we bamboozled by things that, if we don't think deeply, kinda feel they'll work, bu

I'm wondering what part of human nature makes these things possible. Why are we bamboozled by things that, if we don't think deeply, kinda feel they'll work, but we'll never invest any interest into seeing they actually work or not. Does it all boil down to signalling? Is it necessary just to emit enough signal to show others how aware and virtuous we are? This extends to other things, like the whole green foods, green energy, recent pandemic. So many things seem to just be theatrical in nature, no substance whatsoever. I foresee a future when this view from above gets popular, and people will gather around the signal of "but actually this is known not to work", and people will start to be blind of anything else but these new waves of observations, but fundamentally we'll be in the same kind of game.