There are a variety of motivations to believe in nonsense. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963721417718261 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full

There are a variety of motivations to believe in nonsense. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963721417718261 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09637214177182... Also worth noting, higher levels of education tend to correlate with lower belief in conspiracy theories. I've encountered a large number of self-proclaimed autodidacts here on HN, so that could help explain it, too. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5248629/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5248629/